The Esther Raushenbush Library at Sarah Lawrence College houses a strong collection in women’s studies and numerous bibliographic and research aids for women’s historians, including an extensive archive collection.
Research Collections & Historical Documents
The College is located in close proximity to nationally prominent research collections with substantial resources in women’s history, including:
- Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
- Schomberg Archives and Rare Books Collection
- Oral History Collections at Columbia University
- The Tamiment Library & Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives
- Collections at the New York Public Library’s Research Division
- Lesbian Herstory Archives
- New York State Archives
- New York Library Archives
- Civil Rights Digital Library
Substantial collections of women’s history documents are also available at other colleges and universities within a few hours’ drive of Sarah Lawrence:
- Vassar College (LGBTQ Oral History Collection)
- Rutgers University (Women's History Database)
- Swarthmore College (Peace Collection)
- Yale University (Digital Collections)
- Smith College (Sophia Smith Collection)
- Radcliffe College (Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America)
Additional Resources
- H-Women
- Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1830-1930
- U.S. National Archives
- Westweb: Western Women's History
- New York Historical Society
- Discovering American Women's History Online
- International Institute of Social History—Women's History
- History Matters
- Latinas in History: an interactive project
- Documenting the American South
- Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project
- American Life Histories: Manuscripts from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1940
- Voices From the Dustbowl: Migrant Workers in California, 1940-1941
- Archive of Folk Culture, Library of Congress
Organizations
- National Women's History Project
- Women's Equal Pay Network
- National Women's Studies Association
- Feminist Majority Foundation
- Organization of American Historians
- American Historical Association
- Institute for Women's Policy Research
- The Association for the Study of African American Life and History
- American Social History Project Center for Media and Learning
- The Labor Press Project