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• You're Not from Around Here, Are You? A Lesbian in Small-Town America (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, c2001), by Louise A. Blum (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)
• The Stone Wall: An Autobiography (Chicago: Eyncourt Press, 1930), by Mary Casal (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Waiting for the Call: From Preacher's Daughter to Lesbian Mom (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2007), by Jacqueline Taylor (page images at HathiTrust)

• Bisexuality and the Challenge to Lesbian Politics: Sex, Loyalty, and Revolution (New York and London: New York University Press, c1995), by Paula C. Rust (HTML with commentary at NYU Press)

• You're Not from Around Here, Are You? A Lesbian in Small-Town America (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, c2001), by Louise A. Blum (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)

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• Anti-gay violence : hearing before the Subcommittee on Criminal Justice of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, Ninety-ninth Congress, second session ... October 9, 1986. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1987), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Criminal Justice (page images at HathiTrust)

• Bisexuality and the Challenge to Lesbian Politics: Sex, Loyalty, and Revolution (New York and London: New York University Press, c1995), by Paula C. Rust (HTML with commentary at NYU Press)

• Bisexuality and the Challenge to Lesbian Politics: Sex, Loyalty, and Revolution (New York and London: New York University Press, c1995), by Paula C. Rust (HTML with commentary at NYU Press)
• American Homo: Community and Perversity (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1998), by Jeffrey Escoffier (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)

• Amazon Quarterly (US lesbian feminist arts journal, issues online 1972-1975) (partial serial archives)

• Lesbian Connection (selected issues, 1974-1989) (partial serial archives)

• QNotes (partial serial archives)

• QNotes (partial serial archives)

• Out in the Mountains (1986-2007) (full serial archives)

• American Homo: Community and Perversity (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1998), by Jeffrey Escoffier (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)

• Black Lesbians in the 70's and Before: An at Home Tour at the Lesbian Herstory Archives (Brooklyn, NY: Lesbian Herstory Archives, 2010), by Shawnta Smith (page images at qzap.org)

• The Limits to Union: Same-Sex Marriage and the Politics of Civil Rights (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2002), by Jonathan Goldberg-Hiller (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)
• Civil Rights Amendments Act of 1979 : Hearing before the Subcommittee on Employment Opportunities of the Committee on Education and Labor, House of Representatives, Ninety-sixth Congress, second session, H.R 2074 ... hearing held in San Francisco, Calif., October 10, 1980. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1981), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor. Subcommittee on Employment Opportunities (page images at HathiTrust)
• The limits to union : same-sex marriage and the politics of civil rights (University of Michigan Press, 2002), by Jonathan Goldberg-Hiller (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Employment Non-Discrimination Act of 1994 : hearing of the Committee on Labor and Human Resources, United States Senate, One Hundred Third Congress, second session, on S. 2238 to prohibit employment discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, July 29, 1994. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1994), by United States Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources (page images at HathiTrust)

• Freedom to Differ: The Shaping of the Gay and Lesbian Struggle for Civil Rights (New York and London: New York University Press, c1998), by Diane Helene Miller (HTML with commentary at NYU Press)

• Strangers to the Law: Gay People on Trial (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c1998), by Lisa Keen and Suzanne B. Goldberg (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)
• Strangers to the law : gay people on trial (University of Michigan Press, 1998), by Lisa Keen and Suzanne B. Goldberg (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The Empty Closet (full serial archives)

• Enhancing diversity : toward a better campus climate ; a report of the Committee on Lesbian and Gay Concerns (Penn State, 1992), by Pennsylvania State University. Committee on Lesbian and Gay Concerns and William G. Tierney (page images at HathiTrust)

• Employment discrimination against gay men and lesbians : hearing before the Subcommittee on Select Education and Civil Rights of the Committee on Education and Labor, House of Representatives, One Hundred Third Congress, second session, hearing held in New York, NY, June 20, 1994. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1994), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor. Subcommittee on Select Education and Civil Rights (page images at HathiTrust)

• Lesbian Health: Current Assessment and Directions for the Future, ed. by Andrea L. Solarz (page images and partial HTML at NAP)

• Freedom to Differ: The Shaping of the Gay and Lesbian Struggle for Civil Rights (New York and London: New York University Press, c1998), by Diane Helene Miller (HTML with commentary at NYU Press)
• Employment Nondiscrimination Act of 2007 (U.S. G.P.O., 2007), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Employment Non-Discrimination Act of 2007 (H.R. 2015) : hearing before the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor and Pensions, Committee on Education and Labor, U.S. House of Representatives, One Hundred Tenth Congress, first session, hearing held in Washington, DC, September 5, 2007. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 2008), by Employment United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor. Subcommittee on Health (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Lavender Vote: Lesbians, Gay Men, and Bisexuals in American Electoral Politics (New York and London: New York University Press, c1996), by Mark Hertzog (HTML with commentary at NYU Press)

• The Change: My Great American, Postindustrial, Midlife Crisis Tour, by Lori Soderlind (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)

• A Passion to Preserve: Gay Men as Keepers of Culture (Madison and London: University of Wisconsin Press, c2004), by Will Fellows (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)
• Creep: A Life, A Theory, An Apology (Earth: Punctum Books, c2017), by Jonathan Alexander (PDF with commentary at Punctum Books)
• 1001 Beds: Performances, Essays, and Travels (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, c2006), by Tim Miller, ed. by Glen M. Johnson (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)
• Widescreen Dreams: Growing Up Gay at the Movies (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, c1999), by Patrick E. Horrigan (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)
• Taboo (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, c1999), by Boyer Rickel (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)
• The female-impersonators: A sequel to the autobiography of an androgyne and an account of some of the author's experiences during his six years' career as instinctive female-impersonator in New York's underworld; together with the life stories of androgyne associates and an outline of his subsequently acquired knowledge of kindred phenomena of human character and psychology, by Ralph Werther, ed. by Alfred W. Herzog (Gutenberg ebook)
• Autobiography of an Androgyne, by Ralph Werther, ed. by Alfred W. Herzog (Gutenberg ebook)

• Widescreen Dreams: Growing Up Gay at the Movies (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, c1999), by Patrick E. Horrigan (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)

• Famous American Belles of the Nineteenth Century (Philadelphia and London: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1901), by Virginia Tatnall Peacock (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Noble Deeds of American Women, by Jesse Clement (page images at MOA)
• Our Famous Women: An Authorized Record of the Lives and Deeds of Distinguished American Women of Our Times (Hartford, CT: A. D. Worthington, 1884), contrib. by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Rose Terry Cooke, Mary A. Livermore, Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford, Marion Harland, Mary Clemmer, Louise Chandler Moulton, A. D. T. Whitney, Lucy Larcom, Julia Ward Howe, Susan Coolidge, Kate Sanborn, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucia Gilbert Runkle, Laura Curtis Bullard, Lilian Whiting, Elizabeth T. Spring, Elizabeth Bryant Johnston, and Maud Howe Elliott
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• Women of the War: Their Heroism and Self-Sacrifice, by Frank Moore (page images at MOA)
• Women in health, education, and welfare ([HEW Office of Equal Employment Opportunity], 1975), by Education United States. Department of Health (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Wives (Harper & brothers, 1925), by Gamaliel Bradford (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Woman on the American frontier. A valuable and authentic history of the heroism, adventures, privations, captivities, trials, and noble lives and deaths of the "Pioneer mothers of the republic." (S. S. Scranton & company, 1877), by William Worthington Fowler (page images at HathiTrust)
• The women of the American revolution. (Baker and Scribner, 1849), by E. F. Ellet (page images at HathiTrust)
• The women of the American revolution (G. W. Jacobs & co., 1900), by E. F. Ellet (page images at HathiTrust)
• Women of the war their heroism and self-sacrifice. (S. S. Scranton & co.;, 1866), by Frank Moore (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Biographical cyclopaedia of American women. (The Halvord publishing company, inc., 1924), by Mabel Ward Cameron (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ladies in revolt (The Womans Press, 1934), by Abbie Graham (page images at HathiTrust)
• Famous American belles of the nineteenth century (J.B. Lippincott Co., 1901), by Virginia Tatnall Peacock (page images at HathiTrust)
• American women; the official who's who among the women of the nation. (Richard Blank publishing company, 1935), by Durward Howes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Noble deeds of American women with biographical sketches of some of the more prominent. (Lee and Shepard, 1869), by Jesse Clement (page images at HathiTrust)
• In memoriam. Amila Hudson Lemmon. : Born August 27, 1802. Died October 7, 1885. Aged 83 years, 1 month and 11 days. (J.G. Lemmon?], 1885), by Ina D. Coolbrith (page images at HathiTrust)
• Eliza Read Sunderland : a Brief sketch of her life ; Memorial addresses. (s.n., 1912), by John Coleman Adams, Augustus P. Reccord, and Jabez Thomas Sunderland (page images at HathiTrust)
• Worthy women of our first century (J. B. Lippincott, 1877), by Sarah Butler Wister and Agnes Irwin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Women of the war; their heroism and self-sacrifice. (S. S. Scranton & co.;, 1866), by Frank Moore (page images at HathiTrust)
• The pioneer mothers of America ; a record of the more notable women of the early days of the country, and particularly of the colonial and revolutionary periods (G.P. Putnam's sons, 1912), by Harry Clinton Green and Mary Wolcott Green (page images at HathiTrust)
• Daughters of America; or, Women of the century. (True and Company, 1882), by Phebe A. Hanaford (page images at HathiTrust)
• Our famous women : an authorized record of the lives and deeds of distinguished American women of our times : an entirely new work, full of romantic story, lively humor, thrilling experiences, tender pathos, and brilliant wit, with numerous anecdotes, incidents, and personal reminiscences (A. D. Worthington, 1884), by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Cairns Collection of American Women Writers, A.G. Nettleton & Co, and A.D. Worthington & Co (page images at HathiTrust)
• Reminiscences and letters of Caroline C. Briggs (Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1897), by Caroline Clapp Briggs and George Spring Merriam (page images at HathiTrust)
• Before they could vote : American women's autobiographical writing, 1819-1919 (University of Wisconsin Press, 2006), by Julia Watson and Sidonie Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
• Women who have ennobled life (The Union Press, 1915), by Lilian Whiting (page images at HathiTrust)
• Women of the century (B.B. Russell, 1877), by Phebe A. Hanaford, Olympia Brown, Alice Stone Blackwell, and Cairns Collection of American Women Writers (page images at HathiTrust)
• Heroines of service : Mary Lyon, Alice Freeman Palmer, Clara Barton, Frances Willard, Julia Ward Howe, Anna Shaw, Mary Antin, Alice C. Fletcher, Mary Slessor of Calabar, Madame Curie, Jane Addams (Century Co., 1917), by Mary Rosetta Parkman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Great American foundresses (The Macmillan company, 1929), by Joseph Bernard Code (page images at HathiTrust)
• A lady's life in the Rocky Mountains (J. Murray, 1894), by Isabella L. Bird (page images at HathiTrust)
• The women of the American Revolution (Baker and Scribner, 1848), by E. F. Ellet (page images at HathiTrust)
• Women pioneers (Johnson Pub. Co., 1929), by Jane Y. McCallum (page images at HathiTrust)
• Noble deeds of American women; with biographical sketches of some of the more prominent. (C.M. Saxton, 1859), by John Clement (page images at HathiTrust)
• Worthy women of our first century. (Lippincott, 1877), by Agnes Irwin and Sarah Butler Wister (page images at HathiTrust)
• Women in American history. (Books for Libraries Press, 1919), by Grace Humphrey (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Daring and heroic deeds of American women : comprising thrilling examples of courage, fortitude, devotedness, and self-sacrifice among the pioneer mothers of the western country (G.G. Evans, 1860), by John Frost (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memorial exercises in honor of Julia Ward Howe, held in Symphony hall, Boston, on Sunday evening, January 8, 1911, at 8 o'clock. (Printing department, 1911), by Boston City Council, William Henry Lewis, Mary Emma Woolley, and Curtis Guild (page images at HathiTrust)
• I, citizen of eternity : a diary of hopeful days (The Four Seas Company, 1920), by Gertrude Sanborn and Cairns Collection of American Women Writers (page images at HathiTrust)
• Women in American history. (The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1919), by Grace Humphrey (page images at HathiTrust)
• Reminiscences of famous women (Evans-Penfold, 1916), by Harriet A. Townsend (page images at HathiTrust)
• A woman of the century : fourteen hundred-seventy biographical sketches accompanied by portraits of leading American women in all walks of life (Moulton, 1893), by Frances E. Willard and Mary A. Livermore (page images at HathiTrust)
• Heroic women of the West: comprising thrilling examples of courage, fortitude, devotedness, and self-sacrifice, among the pioneer mothers of the western country (A. Hart, 1854), by John Frost and A. Hart (page images at HathiTrust)
• Eminent women of the age ; being narratives of the lives and deeds of the most prominent women of the present generation (S. M. Betts & Co., 1869), by Horace Greeley and James Parton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mrs. Louise E. Bettens. ([E.D. Bettens], 1916), by Edward Detraz Bettens (page images at HathiTrust)
• Famous American belles of the nineteenth century (J. B. Lippincott, 1901), by Virginia Tatnall Peacock (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The female prose writers of America. (E. H. Butler & co., 1852), by John Seely Hart (page images at HathiTrust)
• Daughters of America (Boston : B.B. Russell, 1883., 1883), by Phebe A. Hanaford (page images at HathiTrust)
• Voice of America interviews with eight American women of achievement : Grace Hopper, Betty Friedan, Nancy Landon Kassebaum, Mary Calderone, Helen Thomas, Julia Montgomery Walsh, Maya Angelou, Nancy Clark Reynolds (Voice of America, United States Information Agency, 1985), by Chantal Mompoullan and Voice of America (Organization) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Women of the Revolution (Baker and Scribner, 1849), by E. F. Ellet (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dames and daughters of colonial days (Corner House, 1982), by Geraldine Brooks (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Woman on the frontier (S. S. Scranton, 1877), by William Worthington Fowler (page images at HathiTrust)
• Our famous women : comprising the lives and deeds of American women who have distinguished themselves in literature, science, art, music, and the drama, or are famous as heroines, patriots, orators, educators, physicians, philanthropists, etc., with numerous anecdotes, incidents, and personal reminiscences ... (A.D. Worthington, 1883), by Harriet Beecher Stowe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life in the Rocky Mountains. (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1893), by Isabella L. Bird (page images at HathiTrust)
• My day reminiscences of a long life (Macmillan, 1909), by Roger A. Pryor (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• An uncrowned queen the story of the life of Frances E. Willard, told for young people (F.H. Revell, 1903), by Bernie Babcock (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Our famous women : An authorized record of the lives and deeds of distinguished American women of our times. (A. D. Worthington, 1885), by True Williams and A.D. Worthington & Co (page images at HathiTrust)
• Woman on the frontier. (S. S. Scranton, 1886), by William Worthington Fowler (page images at HathiTrust)
• The part taken by women in American history (The Perry-Nalle publishing co., 1912), by John A. Logan, Harriet Taylor Upton, Julia Green Scott, and Emily Ritchie (page images at HathiTrust)
• A lady's life in the Rocky Mountains (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1886), by Isabella L. Bird (page images at HathiTrust)
• Our famous women : comprising the lives and deeds of American women who have distinguished themselves in literature, science, art, music, and the drama, or are famous as heroines, patriots, orators, educators, physicians, philanthropists, etc. with numerous anecdotes, incidents, and personal experiences (A. D. Worthington, 1884), by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps (page images at HathiTrust)
• Famous American belles of the nineteenth century (J. B. Lippincott company, 1901), by Virginia Tatnall Peacock (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The women of the American Revolution (New York : Baker and Scribner, 1850., 1850), by E. F. Ellet (page images at HathiTrust)
• Woman on the American frontier; a valuable and authentic history of the heroism, adventures, privations, captivities, trials, and noble lives and deaths of the "pioneer mothers of the Republic.". (S. S. Scranton, 1883), by William Worthington Fowler (page images at HathiTrust)
• Women of the Revolution (McMenamy, Hess, 1873), by E. F. Ellet (page images at HathiTrust)
• Woman on the American frontier : a valuable and authentic history of the heroism, adventures, privations, captivities, trials, and noble lives and deaths of the "pioneer mothers of the Republic" (S.S. Scranton, 1878), by William Worthington Fowler (page images at HathiTrust)
• Women of achievement : written for the Fireside Schools, under the auspices of the Woman's American Baptist Home Mission Society (The Society, 1919), by Benjamin Griffith Brawley and Woman's American Baptist Home Mission Society (page images at HathiTrust)
• Our famous women; an authorized record of the lives and deeds of distinguished American women of our times; an entirely new work, full of romantic story, lively humor, thrilling experiences, tender pathos, and brilliant wit, with numerous anecdotes, incidents, and personal reminiscences (S.F. Junkin & Co., 1887), by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps (page images at HathiTrust)
• The women of the American Revolution (Baker and Scribner, 1849), by E. F. Ellet (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tale of woe (Printed for the authoress., 1809), by K. White and Frank Cutter Deering (page images at HathiTrust)
• Noble deeds of American women; ; with biographical sketches of some of the more prominent. (Derby, Orton and Mulligan. ;, 1853), by John Chester Buttre, L. H. Sigourney, J. Clement, Thomas & Co Jewett, Geo. H. Derby & Co, Derby and Miller, and Orton & Mulligan Miller (page images at HathiTrust)
• Adventures in California (Published at the Empire Steam Printing House, 1857), by Jane Barron (page images at HathiTrust)
• Autobiography and letters (Beebe & Elkins, printers, 1858), by Ellen Stewart (page images at HathiTrust)
• Women of the war; : their heroism and self-sacrifice. (S.S. Scranton & Co. R.C. Treat, Chicago, H.H. Bancroft & Co., San Francisco. National Publishing Company, Cincinnati., 1868), by Frank Moore and G.E. Perine & Co (page images at HathiTrust)
• Famous women (Union Publishing House, 1894), by L. P. Brockett, Henry W. Bellows, and Mary C. Vaughan (page images at HathiTrust)
• American women : fifteen hundred biographies with over 1,400 portraits : a comprehensive encyclopedia of the lives and achievements of American women during the nineteenth century (Mast, Crowell & Kirkpatrick, 1897), by Mary A. Livermore, Frances E. Willard, and Crowell & Kirkpatrick Mast (page images at HathiTrust)
• Noble deeds of American women. With an introd. by L.H. Sigourney. (C.M. Saxton, Barker, 1861), by Jesse Clement (page images at HathiTrust)
• Noted women of Europe and America : authors, artists, reformers, and heroines, queens, princesses, and women of society, women eccentric and peculiar : from the most recent and authentic sources (Hartford, Conn. : Phoenix Publishing Co., 1883., 1883), by James Parton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pioneer women of America : A valuable and authentic history of the heroism, adventures, privations, captivities, trials, and noble lives and deaths of the mothers of the republic (S. S. Scranton, 1896), by William Worthington Fowler (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Child of the Orient, by Demetra Vaka (Gutenberg ebook)
• Famous American Belles of the Nineteenth Century, by Virginia Tatnall Peacock (Gutenberg ebook)
• Heroines of Service: Mary Lyon, Alice Freeman Palmer, Clara Barton, Frances Willard, Julia Ward Howe, Anna Shaw, Mary Antin, Alice C. Fletcher, Mary Slessor of Calabar, Madame Curie, Jane Addams, by Mary Rosetta Parkman (Gutenberg ebook)
• Noble Deeds of American Women: With Biographical Sketches of Some of the More Prominent, ed. by J. Clement (Gutenberg ebook)

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