Women in History

Library Databases -- 39 databases of reliable, in-depth, and current information. Always the best place to start for quality resources. You will need to log in with your regular user name and password.  Add " @qsbyin " to your user name.

Women's History Resources-- From the University of Wisconsin.
Diotima-- Materials for the study of women in the ancient world.
Civil War Women-- Primary sources on the Internet.  From Duke University.
African-American Woman Writers of the 19th Century -- From the New York Public Library.
Genderstats -- A database of gender statistics from the World Bank.
Not for Ourselves Alone: Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony -- Companion to the Ken Burns documentary on PBS.
Women Working, 1800 - 1930 -- "Focuses on women's role in the United States economy and provides access to digitized historical, manuscript, and image resources selected from Harvard University's library and museum collections ... approximately 500,000 digitized pages and images." Huge, easy-to-use, and fascinating.
   

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