This database is a resource for students and scholars of U.S. women’s history and U.S. history more broadly. Loosely organized around the history of women in social movements in the United States between 1600 and 2000, the site seeks to advance scholarly debates and understanding of U.S. history while making the insights of women’s history accessible to scholars and students at universities and colleges. It features learning-centered document projects, as well as extensive collections of primary sources. We are also an online journal and publish new issues twice a year (fall and spring), featuring new document projects and book reviews, as well as a host of other material, including essays, roundtables, and other special features. The site is published by Alexander Street, a ProQuest Company, with support from the University of California at Irvine and San Diego.
Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000 contains the following resources:
-130 document projects and document archives that present and interpret primary source documents, the great majority of which are not otherwise available online. Each document project poses an interpretive question or series of questions and provides a collection of documents that address the question. Altogether these document projects and archives contain about 5,300 documents, 1,400 images, and 1,140 links to other websites. They demonstrate that historical analysis is an interpretive process based on documents and encourage viewers of the site to participate in that process. We add four new document projects or additions to existing projects annually.
-About 4,800 publications with 120,000 pages of primary source collections pertaining to Women and Social Movements in the United States. These materials were selected by the founding editors for their relevance to the focus of the website. For a listing of Primary Source Collections, go to Browse All Works, click on Primary Source Set (on the left), and check the primary source set you would like to view.
-A dictionary of social movements and organizations.
-A chronology of U.S. Women's History.
-Teaching Tools with lesson ideas and document-based questions related to many of the website's document projects. -Book and website reviews published twice annually.
-An online edition of the five-volume biographical dictionary, Notable American Women (1971-2004).
-An Online Biographical Dictionary of the Woman Suffrage Movement in the United States that currently includes about 2,140 biographical sketches of grassroots woman suffrage activists, to which we expect to add about 500 sketches every six months until the resource is completed in late 2021. The collection includes radical, mainstream and black women suffragists who were primarily active from 1890 to 1920.
