Welcome to the Digital Archive of the Birth Control Review. The BCR was an American magazine (1917-1940) that agitated for the repeal of laws restricting access to birth control. The magazine employed literature and the creative arts in its quest to overturn these laws, publishing stories, poems, plays, photographs, and illustrations alongside news reports and editorials. Writers with bylines in the BCR include some of the best-known authors, intellectuals, and politicians of the era, including Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Olive Schreiner, W.E.B. Du Bois, Havelock Ellis, and Eugene Debs, as well as hundreds of other artist-activists. The BCR, thanks to its duration, scope, and impact, is a rich repository of reproductive history. We cannot fully understand the United States birth control movement without studying the BCR. The Digital Archive of the BCR  facilitates this research.