Women and Social Movements

Women and Social Movements contains the resources on the history of women in social movements in the U.S. between 1600 and 2000. These include 72 document projects that interpret and present documents, most of which are not otherwise available online. Each document project poses an interpretive question and provides a collection of documents that address the question. Altogether these document projects provide more than 2,100 documents, approximately 800 images, and over 700 links to other websites. They demonstrate that historical analysis is an interpretive process based on documents.

* More than 28,000 pages of documents pertaining to Women and Social Movements.
* A dictionary of social movements and organizations.
* A chronology of U.S. Women's History.
* Teaching Tools with lesson ideas related to the website's document projects.
* Quarterly news from the archives about U.S. Women's History.

The website also includes digitized versions of books and pamphlets related to women and social movements in the U.S. expanding the site by about 5,000 pages a year. Initially these volumes focused on one hundred years of the woman suffrage movement, 1830-1930, including the six volumes of The History of Woman Suffrage (1881-1922) edited by Stanton, Anthony, and other leaders of the woman suffrage movement and all the proceedings of the three national conventions of anti-slavery women held in the 1830s and the woman's rights conventions held between 1848 and 1869. A Dictionary of Social Movements and a Chronology of U.S. Women's History, both especially prepared for this joint website, provide users unique subject access to both document projects and full-text sources on the site. Alexander Street Press has provided detailed semantic indexing and database searching for these and other resources on the site, greatly improving its scholarly utility.

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