LibGuides: Database Guides : New and Updated Resources: Women and Social Movements in the United States

North American Women's Letters and Diaries

The Women and Social Movements in the United States , 1600-2000 collection includes the full-text of writings from over 9500 documents, 1500 images, and 1200 links to resources covering 400 years of American history.

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Subject, chronology, people, social movements, organizations, online biography, etc.

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OneSearch only searches and lists brief information for each of the 600 publications in this collection. Use the Alexander Street Press interface to search within the text of the 150,000 pages.

Example OneSearch Book record: 1990 Report of the Illinois Task Force on Gender Bias in the Courts.

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Detailed Description - Noth American Women's Diaries and Letters

The collection is a resource for students and scholars of U.S. history and U.S. women's history. Organized around the history of women in social movements in the U.S. between 1600 and 2000, this collection seeks to advance scholarly debates and understanding about U.S. women’s history generally and at the same time make those insights accessible to teachers and students at universities, colleges, and high schools. The collection currently includes 124 document projects and archives with more than 5,100 documents and 175,000 pages of additional full-text documents, written by 2,800 primary authors. It also includes book, film, and website reviews, notes from the archives, and teaching tools.