J301: Women, Activism, and Politics, 1787-1920

J301: Women, Activism, and Politics, 1787-1920
Spring 2007
Instructor: Wendy Gamber
Librarian: Celestina Wroth, cewroth@indiana.edu

Library Catalogs

• IUCAT - the Indiana University Libraries online catalog. Hint: use the Advanced Keyword Search, and try some of these subject terms, or combine them with your own keywords:

  women in public life united states history 18th century (or 19th or 20th)
  african american women political activity history
  women in politics united states history
  women's rights united states history
  women suffrage history
  women political activists united states history

• WorldCat - giant combined catalog of most of the libraries in the US. Use Interlibrary Loan to get materials from other libraries
  

• America: History & Life - online access to history journals
  
• Academic Search (EBSCO) - online access to scholarly and popular journal and magazine articles

• Women and Social Movements - digitized collection of works by politically active American women, 1600 to present
  
• North American Women's Letters and Diaries - digitized collection of women's private writings, 1600s to 1950
  
• History of Women Collection - huge microfilm collection of primary sources. Searchable online guide available
  
• American Memory: Women's History - digitized materials from the Library of Congress
  
• Evans Digital Edition - digital versions of books printed in America in the 17th and 18th centuries
  

• 19th Century Historical United States Newspapers
  
• African-American Newspapers: The 19th Century
  
• Early American Newspapers Series I, II & III
  
• ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Washington Post

• American Periodicals Series Online - American magazines, 1740-1900 (digitized)
  
• Godey's Lady's Book - searchable text plus illustrations of a widely-read women's magazine from the 19th century
  
• Periodicals Index Online - online access to scholarly journals from the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries (look here for intellectuals' views of events in your time period)
  
• Readers Guide Retrospective 1890-1982 - online access to popular American magazines