Primary Sources

Confederate nurse's diary
(http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/lincolns/filmmore/ps_diary_nurses.html)

Many women served as nurses in the Civil War. Learn about their duties and struggles by reading an excerpt from a Confederate nurse's diary.

Rose Greenhow
(http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/greenhow/roseindex.html)

Rose Greenhow ignored feminine conventions and participated in the Civil War as a Confederate spy. Find 10 links to her original letters.

New York Women Sweatshop
(http://americanhistory.si.edu/sweatshops/history/2t30.htm)

See a photograph of New York women sewing a pair of pants in a typical 1900 style.

1910 sewing machine
(http://americanhistory.si.edu/sweatshops/history/2t38.htm)

Look at a 1910 sewing machine.

Florence Kelley
(http://womhist.binghamton.edu/factory/doclist.htm)

Florence Kelley led the push for labor laws in Chicago in the 1890s. Find links to 19 documents regarding her fight against sweatshops and the mistreatment of women and children workers in Illinois in the 1890s.

New York City's Shirtwaist Strike
(http://womhist.binghamton.edu/shirt/doclist.htm)

Find links to 23 primary source documents on relations between strikers in New York City's Shirtwaist Strike of 1909-1910.

1912 Lawrence Strike
(http://womhist.binghamton.edu/law/doclist.htm)

Find 28 documents and 4 images relating to the 1912 Lawrence Strike.

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