Research Guides -- History:
Women's History
Library Catalog / Primary Sources / Electronic
Databases / Internet Resources
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Women's History bibliography (J. Ryan)
Women's History bibliography (J. Stevens)
Library Catalogs
MATC Libraries Online Catalog - Webcat provides access to books, magazines, Reference and Reserve material, audio-visual material
(for example, DVDs), and web resources. Search by subject or keyword.
- Most history books will be located in the 900’s and many women's history titles are located in the 300s..
- Consult the Primary Source Research Guide for suggestions on locating primary source materials in the MATC Libraries
Other Library Catalogs can be accessed from MATC libraries web page.
Search the University of Wisconsin - Madison Libraries catalog- MadCat which includes holdings at the Wisconsin State Historical Library & Archives. UW Borrowing Card: The MATC Libraries have an agreement with the UW-Madison Libraries to provide a borrowing card free of charge to MATC students. Stop in at any of the MATC Libraries to learn more and fill out the form.
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Academic Search Elite or Expanded
Academic ASAP or Academic Onefile
Use these academic database to find articles from scholarly and history journals.
Full-text titles in Academic Search Elite include Women's Studies, Journal of Gender Studies, Feminist Studies, and many other history journals. Expanded Academic ASAP includes Journal of Women's History, Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, Resources for Feminist Research, Middle East Women's Studies Review, and many others.
CountryWatch
Provides country-specific geopolitical intelligence on 192 countries in the world, including a section on status of women.
JSTOR
Archive of scholarly journals. Titles include American Historical Review, Journal
of American History, Journal of Southern History, Journal of Military History,
and others.
Proquest All Collections
Full-text of national newspapers including The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Chicago Tribune; Selected Wisconsin newspapers including the Wisconsin State Journal, Captial Times, and The
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; plus other national, ethnic press, local, and international newspapers and other publications. Proquest Historical Newspapers (below) must be searched separately.
Proquest Historical Newspapers
Chicago Defender (1921-1975) Chicago Tribune (1849-1985), New York Times(1851 – three years prior to present year )
Full page images of the Chicago Defender , Chicago Tribune, New York Times. Complete with illustrations, advertisements, obituaries, etc. as they appeared in the newspaper at that time.
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American
Memory
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/browse/ListSome.php?category=Women's%20History
Women's History primary source collections from the Library of Congress National Digital Library
Program.
American Women's History: A Research Guide
http://frank.mtsu.edu/~kmiddlet/history/women.html
Reference guide from Middle Tennessee State University Library
Documents from the Women’s Liberation Movement
http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/wlm/
Internet Women's History
Sourcebooks Project
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/women/womensbook.html
Full text historical documents and links for women's history.
Making of America
(MOA)
http://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/moagrp/
Digital library of primary resources in American social history from the antebellum
period through reconstruction including sociology as well as education, psychology,
American history, religion, science and technology.
Prelinger
Archives
http://www.archive.org/details/prelinger
Over 1,200 "ephemeral" (advertising, educational, industrial, and
amateur) films made from 1927 through the present.
Women and Social Movements in the United States
http://womhist.alexanderstreet.com/
Women's History Resources
http://womenst.library.wisc.edu/resources/research/history.html
Link collection maintained by the University of Wisconsin System Women's Studies Librarian.
Women in World History
http://chnm.gmu.edu/wwh/index.html
A project of the Center for History and New Media, George Mason University
Women Working: 1800-1930
http://ocp.hul.harvard.edu/ww/
From Harvard's Open Collections, approximately 500,000 digitized pages and images focused on the role of women in the U.S. economy.
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Citations
Chicago Style Citations
MATC Libraries History Research Guide
Knightcite
http://webapps.calvin.edu/knightcite/index.php
This is a free citation-producing service (MLA , APA, and Chicago) created by the Heckman Library at Calvin College.
MATC Virtual Writing Center
http://matcmadison.edu/is/writingcenter/
The MATC Writing Center is available to all students at MATC who have writing needs. The Center hopes to provide support and assistance to students from all programs and departments in which teachers assign writing projects.
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