Multi-Era Costume History
- Costume in Detail: 1730-1930, by Nancy Bradford
- Dressed for the Photographer: Ordinary Americans and Fashion, 1840-1900, by Joan L. Severa
- Fashion: A History from the 18th to the 20th Century, by the Kyoto Costume Institute
- My Likeness Taken: Daguerreian Portraits In America, by Joan L. Severa
- Nineteenth Century Fashion in Detail, by Lucy Johnston
- Seventeenth and Eighteenth-Century Fashion in Detail, by Avril Hart and Susan North
- Thoughts on Men's Shirts in America, 1750-1900, by William L. Brown III
- Textile Designs: Two Hundred Years of European and American Patterns Organized by Motifs, Style, Color, Layout, and Period, by Susan Meller and Joost Elffers
Mid-19th century
General
- Inside the Victorian Home: A Portrait of Domestic Life in Victorian England, by Judith Flanders
- An Introduction to Civil War Civilians, By Juanita Leisch
- Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War, By Drew Gilpin Faust
- The Book of Burwell Students, By Mary Claire Engstrom
Occupations and Work
- Famine And Fashion: Needlewomen In The Nineteenth Century, By Beth Harris
- Laundry Handbook: A Manual for Creating a Civilian or Military Laundress Impression or Laundry Exhibit, By Virginia Mescher
- Neither Lady nor Slave: Working Women of the Old South, By Susanna Delfino
- What's a Poor Girl to Do?: Prostitution in Mid-Nineteenth Century America, By Elizabeth A. Topping
Clothing and Appearance
- Who Wore What?: Women's Wear 1861-1865, By Juanita Leisch
- Powdered, Painted, and Perfumed: Cosmetics of the Civil War Period and Their Historic Context, By Virginia Mescher
- Timeless Beauty, By Lola Montez with modern notes by Juanita Leisch
- The Ladies' Self Instructor In Millinery & Mantua Making, Embroidery & Applique
Crafts and Chores
- The Workwoman's Guide, by A Lady
- Knitting A La Mode and Knit Two A La Mode, By Silvana R. Siddali and Polly D. Steenhagen
- Mrs. Beeton's Book of Household Management, By Mrs. Beeton
Entertainment
- The Sociable or 1001 Home Amusements, By George Arthur
- Victorian and Edwardian Seaside, By Janice Anderson and Edmund Swinglehurst
Early 20th Century
World War II
- Our Mothers' War: American Women at Home and at the Front During World War II, by Emily Yellin
- We Band of Angels: The Untold Story of American Nurses Trapped on Bataan by the Japanese, by Elizabeth M. Norman
- Dressed for Duty: America's Women in Uniform, by Jill Halcomb Smith
- The Women's Army Corps, 1945-1978, by Bettie J. Morden
- Wacs: Women's Army Corps, by Vera S. Williams
Clothing and Appearance
- 1940s Hairstyles, by Daniela Turudich
- Fashionable Clothing from the Sears Catalogs, Series from Early 1930s- 1970s