Nash Library has access to three women’s history databases through March 31, 2007. The databases are:
British and Irish Women’s Letters and Diaries includes 100,000 pages of published letters and diaries from nearly 500 individuals writing from 1500 to 1900. The uses for the collection will be many and varied. For historians, sociologists, students of literature, researchers in genealogy, and others, British and Irish Women’s Letters and Diaries will prove a dramatic new resource. These diaries bring us much more than the personal. They provide a detailed record of what women wore, the conditions under which they worked, what they ate, what they read, and how they amused themselves. We can see how frequently they attended church, how they viewed their connection to God, and how they prayed. We can explore their relationships with lovers and family and friends.
North American Women’s Letters and Diaries includes some 150,000 pages of published letters and diaries from individuals writing from Colonial times to 1950, including more than 6,000 pages of previously unpublished materials. The collection brings the personal experiences of some 1,325 women to researchers, students, and general readers. The collection is drawn from more than 600 sources, including journal articles, pamphlets, newsletters, monographs, and conference proceedings, much of the material is in copyright.
Women and Social Movements contains the following resources:
- 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 2,100documents, approximately 800 images, and over 700 links to other websites.
- 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 and document-based questions related to the website’s document projects.
- Quarterly news from the archives about U.S. Women’s History.
