New database of more than 2,400 primary sources on history of women
The UIC Library now subscribes to the online database Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000, a collection of primary documents, books, images, scholarly essays, book reviews, Web site reviews, and teaching tools, all documenting women’s activism in public life.
The database is organized around document projects, each posing a new interpretative question and then providing 20 to 50 primary documents that address the question, together with an interpretive introduction and headnotes, bibliography, and related links. Examples of topics are:
- How did the Ladies Association of Philadelphia shape new forms of women's activism during the American Revolution, 1780-1781?
- How did Black and White Southern women campaign to end lynching, 1890-1942?
- How and why did the Guerrilla Girls alter the art establishment in New York City, 1985-1995?
Currently there are about 2,400 primary documents in the database and more are added quarterly. The interface enables researchers to do full-text searching and browsing of all the document projects, and to consult timelines, dictionaries, and links to about 800 websites.
Women and Social Movements in the United States is edited by Kathleen Sklar and Thomas Dublin at the Center for the Historical Study of Women and Gender at the State University of New York at Binghamton. The editors are now accepting submissions of document projects for consideration for online publication.
If you have questions or comments about this new database, email Stephen E. Wiberley, Jr., Bibliographer for the Social Sciences., field_56ba6f8fdb00c