HIS 230 - Women in American History
Librarian: David Bradshaw , ext. 3059
Books, Videos & CDs:
Search the MCLN Catalog
NetLibrary, History E-Book Project and other e-book collections – for over 50,000 electronic books.
Other Library Catalogs – to see what's available at UNC-A and other local libraries.
WorldCat – searches the collections of libraries all over the world and indexes books, audiovisuals, & archival and manuscript materials.
Articles & Databases:
Journal Sources:You could try these interdisciplinary, full-text periodical databases which cover almost any subject area. There are over 10,000 full-text journal titles in these three databases:
Academic Search Premier
MasterFILE Premier
Proquest Research Library
Next, try some of these more specialized indexes:
JSTOR - The Scholarly Journal Archive – contains complete backfiles of key journals covering many subject areas including history (over 50 journals in history).
America History & Life – a great index w/ abstracts only (no full text), covering pre-history to the present for the U.S. and Canada.
Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000 – books, images, documents, scholarly essays, commentaries, and bibliographies, documenting the multiplicity of women’s reform activities.
North American Women's Letters & Diairies – includes the immediate experiences of 442 women, as revealed in approximately 50,000 pages of diaries and letters spanning more than 300 years. The collection includes one of the most comprehensive bibliographies of women's diaries and letters yet published. Also includes more than 1,500 biographies.
Other Possibilities:
Alternative Press Index and Index
American National Biography
American Civil War: Letters & Diaries
American Slavery: A Composite Autobiography
Annals of American History
Biography Resource Center
Humanities Index
Oral History Online
Social Sciences Index
Women Working, 1870-1930
The New York Times Historical – full coverage back to 1851.
Web Sites:
Take a look at our library's selected list of History and Women's Studies web sites. American Memory Project – part of the American Digital Library Project of the Library of Congress, this site is a gateway to rich primary source materials relating to the history and culture of the United States. The site offers more than 7 million digital items from more than 100 historical collections. American Women's History: A Research Guide – a wonderful resource from MTSU, including lots of links to digital primary sources. Documenting the American South – a great collection of primary documents.
Documents from the Women's Liberation Movement – from the archival collection in Duke's Special
Collections Library with a focus on the radical origins of the movement in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
Internet Women's History Sourcebook – this collection of primary sources and meta-indexes deals
with women's history country by country, struggle by struggle. Making of America – contains approximately
8,500 books and 50,000 journal articles with
19th century imprints.
National American Women Suffrage Association Collection – part of the
American Memory project from the Library of Congress, this collection includes
books, pamphlets, and other important documents and images from the sufffrage
movement. North American Slave Narratives – part of the Documenting the American South collection from UNC-Chapel Hill Slave Narratives from the Federal Writer's Project – from the American Memory Project at the Library of Congress United States Historical Census Data Browser – for census data between 1790 and 1970. Women in American History – a special multimedia exhibit from Britannica Online, including lots of primary documents.
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