J301: Women and American Politics

Welcome to the library class page for J301: Women and American Politics.
Updated from Celestina Savonius-Wroth's J301: Women, Activism, and Politics, 1787-1920


Library Catalogs
Search for primary and secondary materials.

• 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 or 21st)
  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.
  

Researching a person?  
Try using a biographical resource to locate primary and secondary materials on a person.

• Biography Resource Center - Full-text biographical information on more than 185,000 people from throughout history.

Library Website
The theme of the library for the past year was 1968, and each floor of the library celebrates an aspect of this dynamic year.  The companion website provides resource guides for the decade. 

• Social Movements - this part covers the Feminist Movement.

Secondary Sources

• America: History & Life - index of history articles, books, dissertations, etc.
  
• JSTOR - full text access to scholarly journal articles of a variety subjects.
  
• Project Muse - full text access to scholarly journal articles of a variety subjects.
  
• Academic Search (EBSCO) - online access to scholarly and popular journal and magazine articles of all subjects.

Primary Sources: Archives

• Politics and Presidents - an October celebration of IUB archives and special collections.  You could even win $100!

Primary Sources: Collections

• Women and Social Movements - digitized collection of works by politically active American women, 1600 to present. Click on the "Movements" tab to sort documents by movement.
  
• North American Women's Letters and Diaries - digitized collection of women's private writings, 1600s to 1950.  See also American Civil War: Letters & Diaries. 
  
• History of Women Collection - huge microfilm collection of primary sources. Searchable online guide available; select the collection title "History of Women" and then use a keyword search.
  
• 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. Under the "Subjects" tab, try browsing "Politics" or "Society, Manners and Customs."
  
• Sabin Americana 1500-1926 - digital versions of published pamphlets, tracts, memoirs, congressional legislation, correspondence, broadsides, biographies, histories, fiction and poetry, eulogies, sermons and innumerable other genres.
  
• American Social History Online - More than 40 primary source collections of digitized photographs, maps, sheet music, and documents from the 19th and 20th centuries. Click on "collections."

Primary Sources: Digitized Newspapers

• 19th Century Historical United States Newspapers
  
• African-American Newspapers: The 19th Century
  
• Early American Newspapers Series I, II & III
  
• ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Chicago Tribune (1849-1985), Los Angeles Times (1881-1985), New York Times (1851-2003), Washington Post (1877-1990)

Primary Sources: Magazines and Journals

• American Periodicals Series Online - digitized American magazines, 1740-1900.  Under the "Advanced" tab, click "Look up publications" to browse or search the magazine titles.
  
• Godey's Lady's Book - searchable text plus illustrations of a widely-read women's magazine from the 19th century.  Select Godey's Lady's Book as the source before searching.
  
• Periodicals Index Online - index 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 - index to popular American magazines.
  
  

Government Information, Microforms, and Statistical Services
Government Information, Microforms, and Statistical Services (GIMSS) is located in Wells Library, East Tower, 2^nd floor.  Please consult with a reference librarian at GIMSS for further expert assistance.

• Green Box Page: Government information on all countries. Check out the United States page for access to census, political information, national statistics, and more government information.

Chicago Manual of Style Online: Chicago-Style Citation Quick Guide


Feel free to contact me, your visiting librarian for history Malia Willey: mewilley@indiana.edu, if you have any questions.