Related Databases & Collections

Databases & collections related to the Cairns Collection

Related Databases

• American Periodicals Series Online (1741–1900)
• Brown University Women Writers Project Online (1400–1850)
• Defining Gender
• Discovering American Women’s History (1600s–present)
• Early American Imprints, Series I. Evans (1639–1800)
• Everyday Life and Women in America (1800–1920)
• Gerritsen Collection; Women’s History Online (1543–1945)
• North American Women’s Letters and Diaries (Colonial–1950)
• Women and Social Movements in the United States (1600–2000)

Related UW-Madison Library Collections

The Cairns Collection is complemented by other library holdings on the Madison campus.

• Wisconsin State Historical Society Library is an extremely rich archive for the cultural and political history of American women, with extensive holdings in personal and public papers of both little-known and prominent women, including reformers and suffragists.
• Steenbock Library collects a number of mass circulation magazines for women.
• Memorial Library houses the microform set, History of Women, an indispensable resource for historians, drawn from a number of specialized repositories across the country.
• Ebling Health Sciences Library for materials on women’s health.

Related Collections at Other institutions

• Duke University’s Sally Bingham Center for Women’s History and Culture
• University of New England’s Maine Women Writers Collections
• Washington State University’s Society for the Study of American Women Writers