To help researchers locate related resources beyond the Sophia Smith Collection, this section provides links to other archival and women's history resources on the Web. Included are sites for beginning researchers and those less familiar with conducting archival or historical research. See also the General Women's History Resources section, featuring selected Web sites with women's history themes and online primary sources.
Smith and Five Colleges
- American Studies Program, Smith College
- Site designed to assist present and prospective Smith American Studies majors in interpreting the requirements and the discipline's relationship to the broader liberal arts curriculum. Several courses include research projects based on Sophia Smith Collection sources.
- College Archives, Smith College
- Actively documenting the history of Smith College for more than 75 years. A rich body of primary sources on women's education and many other topics. The College Archives shares space, support staff, and public services with the Sophia Smith Collection.
- History Department, Smith College
- Information about the department's major requirements, course offerings and faculty. Some course projects utilize primary source materials from the Sophia Smith Collection and Smith College Archives.
- Five College Archives and Manuscripts
- Search over 900 finding aids describing archives and manuscripts found at the Five Colleges, including the Sophia Smith Collection. Site also features the Primary Source Research Guide.
- Five College Archives Digital Access Project
- Provides access to digitized versions of archival records and manuscript collections relating primarily to women's history, particularly women's education, at the Five Colleges. Includes documents from the Smith College Archives and the Sophia Smith Collection.
- Five College Women's Studies Research Center
- This center was founded in 1991 to support scholarly and creative work in women's studies. The center aims to facilitate the formation of a network of feminist scholars through the development of a colloquium series, residencies for feminist scholars, and conferences on scholarship and teaching in women's studies.
- Mortimer Rare Book Room, Smith College
- The Mortimer Rare Book Room, a collection of nearly 40,000 volumes, covers the history of printing from the fifteenth century to the twentieth. All aspects of the book arts are represented.
- Program for the Study of Women and Gender, Smith College
- Information about the Smith and Five College women's studies curricular offerings and faculty. Its faculty regularly base term projects on Sophia Smith Collection and Smith College Archives holdings.
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Archival Resources
- Archives for Research on Women and Gender--Women's Collections (University of Texas-San Antonio)
- Provides an extensive annotated list of internet resources for U.S. women's history archival repositories.
- Repositories of Primary Sources
- A list of more than 2200 U.S. and international Web sites that describe manuscripts, archives, rare books, historical photographs, and related sources (at the University of Idaho Library Web site).
Women's History Web sites
- The Gender Equality Group (Organization for Economic Development)
- A network of links to Web sites addressing topics that affect women from agriculture and food security to leadership and politics. The site contains information about women from varying geographical locations, and speaks to current issues in a worldwide context.
- H-Women
- An edited electronic discussion group for historians, teachers, archivists, and others interested in women's history. Features reviews of new books, notices of events, exhibits, and collection openings and lively debates on historiography and the teaching of history.
- Jewish Women's Archive
- This Web site features online exhibits, oral histories, lesson plans, and scholarly resources on the history of American Jewish women.
- Mapping the World of Women's Information Services
- A database of over 350 women's information centers, libraries, and archives from more than 125 countries. A project of the International Information Centre and Archives for the Women's Movement (IIAV) in the Netherlands.
- Margaret Sanger Papers Project
- An on-going effort to locate, collect, identify, and publish the papers of the birth control pioneer in a comprehensive microfilm and select book edition. Based at NYU, it serves as a clearing house for U.S. and international birth control history.
- The National Women's History Museum
- A "museum without walls," the NWHM features online exhibits covering a range of women's history topics.
- National Women's History Project
- A non-profit educational organization to promote the multicultural study of women's history in the K-12 classroom. Sometimes partners with the Sophia Smith Collection in compiling curricular materials.
- Women's Archives Mapping Project Directory (U.S.)
- "An ongoing effort to map archival repositories with collections relating to women. This directory is intended to provide both potential donors and researchers with information on repositories that collect women's history."
- Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1830-1930
- This Web site presents student editing projects, each providing 15-20 primary documents, addressing focused topics related to women and social movements in the U.S. between 1830 and 1930.
SEE ALSO
- General Women's History Resources
- Additional links to internet resources that provide general information on women's history, including some that feature online primary sources. These are good resources for History Day projects and other students doing research in primary sources for the first time.
Our linking policy: The purpose of this page is to guide researchers to additional women's history sites on the Web. We do not link to sites of individual manuscript or archival repositories. However, most can be found via either the Archives for Research on Women and Gender or the Repositories of Primary Resources.
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