Greatly revised and expanded since its last Scout Report mention, (March 13, 1999) Ken Middleton's American Women's History: A Research Guide includes over 2100 citations to print and Internet sources and hundreds of links to digitized primary sources, as well as frequent updates and link checking to ensure the currency of cited resources. The Research Guide now consists of 4 main sections: an...

In 2001 the Library of Congress created the print publication, "American Women: A Library of Congress Guide for the Study of Women's History and Culture in the United States." The guide was recently redesigned for online use with the addition of illustrations and links to existing digitized material in order to provide a small sample of the Library's vast holdings in this area. As such, the site...

The Special Collections Library of Duke University has maintained for some time an extensive and regularly updated collection of documents from the Women's Liberation Movement of the 1960s and 1970s. The documents are browseable by subject categories and searchable by keyword. Subject categories include General and Theoretical, Medical and Reproductive Rights, Organizations and Activism, Sexuality...

As part of the Five College Archives Digital Access Project (mentioned in the September 25, 1998 Scout Report), Smith College has digitized some of its archival holdings relating to women's history. The Website of the Sophia Smith Collection presents still more of the Smith College holdingsof "manuscripts, photographs, periodicals and other primary sources in women's history." The site includes...

The Sophia Smith Collection at Smith College was made possible under the guidance of its first director, Margaret Storrs Grierson. In 1946, it was named in honor of the founder of Smith College and it has grown to include over 650 different thematic collections. On this page, visitors can browse through their online image collections, oral histories, and exhibits. The oral histories are quite a...

Presented by Baker Library of Harvard Business School, Women, Enterprise and Society (WES) is an online publication that identifies materials in the Business Manuscripts Collection at Baker Library and documents women's participation in American business and culture from the eighteenth through the twentieth century. The launch of WES represents the culmination of a three-year project to identify...