Featured Database: Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000


Women and Social Movements in the United States 1600 to 2000 brings together primary
documents, books, images, essays, book reviews, Web site reviews, teaching tools, and more. The database chronicles the multiplicity of women’s activism in American public life from Colonial times to the present. The database contains tens of thousands pages of books, pamphlets, and related materials—for example, The History of Woman Suffrage (six volumes, 1881-1922); the proceedings of the national conventions of women’s anti-slavery societies in the 1830s; the proceedings of woman’s rights conventions, 1848-1869; the proceedings of the annual conventions of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union, 1874-1898; and publications of the League of Women Voters, 1920-2000.

You can find this database in the database by title box on the library tab in myRedDragon. Also check out the History Research Guide and the Women’s Studies Research Guide for additional resources on this topic!