Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000
Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000 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, the collection seeks to advance scholarly debates and understanding at
the same time that it makes the insights of women's history accessible to
teachers and students at universities, colleges, and high schools. The collection
includes (in March 2009) 90 document projects or archives with almost 2,800
documents and 125,000 pages of additional full-text sources, written by more
than 2,240 primary authors. It also includes book, film, and website reviews,
notes from the archives, and teaching tools. It continues to grow with two new
issues/releases annually.
This editorial website is intended to provide interested students and scholars an
overview of the subscription website, to offer freely-accessible examples of
document projects, and to introduce prospective contributors to the process of
preparing a document project or archive for publication on the website.
To find out whether your library subscribes to WASM, ask a reference librarian.
As of March 2009 about 370 libraries subscribe. The database is typically
accessed through libraries' web pages. Your reference librarian can tell you how
to gain access. For information about library subscriptions, click here.
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Women and Public Life in Spanish North America to 1850
Announcing The Canadian Initiative, a special Canadian issue on women's activism since
1945 will include Canadian material will examine the diversity of experiences that have
informed women's activism in Canada since 1945.
Volume 13
Number 1 (March 2009)
Volume 12
Number 4 (December 2008)
Number 3 (September 2008)
Number 2 (June 2008)
Number 1 (March 2008)
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WASM is jointly published by the Center for the Historical Study of Women and Gender at SUNY Binghamton and
Alexander Street Press. It includes 125,000 pages of books, pamphlets, and proceedings -- in addition to its innovative
document projects. (For access to the site, please click here to arrange a free 30-day trial subscription.)
Since March 2004, we have been an online quarterly journal (see current table of contents). We publish 5,000 pages of
primary materials and six new document projects or archives each year, along with book and website reviews, news from
the archives, and teaching tools that employ the site's documents.
The site also features a Dictionary of Social Movements, a Chronology of Women's History, an extensive author database,
and Alexander Street Press's award-winning Semantic Indexing™. Together, these tools allow you to search the document
projects and primary sources in ways that are impossible on a simple website. For more on how to use the expanded
website, see our tips on how to navigate.
Ask your reference librarian to sign up for a free trial and to subscribe.
Supported by funding from Alexander Street Press. We gratefully acknowledge past funding from
the National Endowment for the Humanities, Houghton Mifflin, and Pro Quest Information and
Learning.
Women and Social Movements, 1600-2000
Copyright © 1997-2009 by Thomas Dublin
and Kathryn Kish Sklar.
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Site was last updated March 18, 2009.
Globe image from the cover of The World's Congress of Representative Women (1893)
The Weathervane image used throughout this site is:
Lucile Chabot, "Gabriel Weathervane," c. 1939, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
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