Guides: Ethnic & Women's Studies: Useful Websites

Websites

Ethnic Studies Websites
Women's Studies Websites

The list below includes scholarly websites on the subject of ethnic studies including African American, Latin American, Asian Certificate of Residence from 1892 American, and Native American heritage.

Archives Library Information Center: Native Americans
This page contains links to American history relating to Native Americans including digital collections, National Archives and Records Administration Resources, National Park Service Resources, Genealogical Resources, Historical Background, Laws and Treaties, and Tribal Resources.
Asian-Pacific American Heritage
This Web portal -- a collaborative project of the Library of Congress and the National Archives and Records Administration and more -- provides access to archival images, documents, as well as audio and visual materials.
Asian Nation: Asian American History, Demographics, and Issues
The work of C.N. Le, a Professor of Sociology, this website provides information on culture, history, and issues. Each article is accompanied by a list of resources for further reading.
A Different Asian American Timeline
This tool invites us to see both the specificity of group-differentiated oppressions and their relationships to one another within racial capitalism. The importance of studying Asian American history in this way lies in the urgent need to work toward democracy amid rising forms of authoritarianism and nationalism. These dangers are the products of American empire, which has accumulated power and wealth for the few by producing and leveraging divisions among the many.
Historic Mexican & Mexican American Press
The Historic Mexican and Mexican American Press collection documents and showcases historic Mexican and Mexican American publications published in Tucson, El Paso, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Sonora, Mexico from the mid-1800s to the 1970s.
Library of Congress American Folk Life Center
The American Folklife Center Archive is one of the largest archives of ethnographic materials from the United States and around the world, encompassing millions of items of ethnographic and historical documentation recorded from the nineteenth century to the present.
National Archives Native American Heritage
The National Archives holds information about American Indians who maintained their ties to Federally-recognized Tribes (1830-1970). Most records are arranged by tribe.
Pew Research: Hispanic Trends Project
The project conducts public opinion surveys that aim to illuminate Latino views on a range of social matters and public policy issues, including its annual National Survey of Latinos. It also publishes demographic studies and other social science research on a wide range of topics.
South Asian American Digital Archive
An independent national non-profit organization that documents, preserves, and shares stories about South Asian Americans. The archive includes manuscripts, images, ephemera, and other historical documents.
UNESCO World Heritage Centre
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) seeks to encourage the identification, protection and preservation of cultural and natural heritage around the world considered to be of outstanding value to humanity.
Unidos US
Serving the Hispanic community through research, policy analysis, and state and national advocacy efforts, as well as in program work in communities nationwide.
Teaching Central America
Collected lessons, book lists, biographies of noted historical figures, and readings for free use by classroom teachers.

Information on the Web can be valuable when researching women's and ethnic studies topics. College, university, and birth control review 1919 government websites in particular provide access to reliable, scholarly information.

The list below includes reliable websites dedicated to the issues on women's studies, feminism, and gender.

American Women Through Time
Includes a timeline that links specific events with relevant online sources, such as diaries and letters, photograph collections, and lectures by historians. Each section also includes a guide to research sources that are appropriate for the specified time period.
Digital Transgender Archive
The purpose of the Digital Transgender Archive (DTA) is to increase the accessibility of transgender history by providing an online hub for digitized historical materials, born-digital materials, and information on archival holdings throughout the world. Based in Worcester, Massachusetts at the College of the Holy Cross, the DTA is an international collaboration among more than sixty colleges, universities, nonprofit organizations, public libraries, and private collections. By digitally localizing a wide range of trans-related materials, the DTA expands access to trans history for academics and independent researchers alike in order to foster education and dialog concerning trans history.
Documents from the Women's Liberation Movement
This online archival collection from Duke University documents various aspects of the Women's Liberation Movement in the United States, and focus specifically on the radical origins of this movement during the late 1960s and early 1970s. You can find documents by doing a keyword search or using the subject categories at the middle of the page.
Library of Congress, American Memory: Women's History
Library of Congress historical collections focused on various aspects of women's history.
Schleisinger Library on the History of Women in America
The Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America documents the lives of women of the past. Visit the "Collections" or "Exhibits" for biographical information on key figures in the history of women and historical accounts of important events.
UN Global Gender Statistics Program
The eleven indicators on national norms monitor how national legislation works toward ensuring gender equality in various areas. Quantitative indicators include economic structures, participation in productive activities and access to resources, education, health and related services, human rights of women and girl children, and public life and decision-making.
United States Department of Labor | Women's Bureau: Data & Statistics
The Women's Bureau was created by law in 1920 to formulate standards and policies to promote the welfare of wage-earning women, improve their working conditions, increase their efficiency, and advance their opportunities for profitable employment.
Women's History Archives at Smith College
The Sophia Smith Collection includes the personal and professional papers of individuals and families, organization records, subject collections, oral histories, periodicals, photographs, and audiovisual materials. Further, the collection provides online access to archival materials including images, online exhibits, oral histories, streaming media, and other digital projects dedicated to women's history.
Women in America: Indicators of Social and Economic Well-Being
The White House Council on Women and Girls report pulls together information from across the Federal statistical agencies to compile baseline information on how women are faring in the United States today and how these trends have changed over time. The report provides a statistical portrait showing how women’s lives are changing in five critical areas: People, Families, and Income; Education; Employment; Health; Crime and Violence.
Working women, 1800-1930
Documents women's impact on the economic life of the United States between 1800 and the Great Depression. This online collection provides digital access to archival books and pamphlets, diaries and memoirs, institutional records, key organizations, magazines, manuscripts, photographs, and trade catalogs. Additionally, the collection includes biographies of notable people and a timeline of critical dates of events in the history of working women.
International Center for Research on Women
Anchored in the principle of human dignity, ICRW advances gender equity, inclusion and shared prosperity. To this end, ICRW works with non-profit, government and private sector partners to conduct research, develop and guide strategy and build capacity to promote evidence-based policies, programs and practices.