Individual digitized images and documents from the Sophia Smith Collection are displayed throughout our web site. The following lists special exhibits and projects found both on this and other sites. For policies regarding the use of any images on this site, please see Terms of Use.

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Voices of Feminism Oral History Project

Over fifty in-depth interviews document the persistence and diversity of organizing for women in the United States. Narrators include labor, peace, and anti-racism activists; singers, filmmakers and writers; lesbian rights advocates; grassroots anti-violence and anti-poverty organizers; and women of color reproductive justice leaders. Full transcripts are online for most interviews in PDF format.

Population and Reproductive Health Oral History Project

Full transcripts of interviews with pioneers in the birth control movement, population planning, and reproductive health from the 1960s to the present. Online transcripts are in both HTML and PDF formats.

Photo: Women's health workshop, rural Nepal. © 2004 Helen Hawkings, Courtesy of Photoshare.

Online Exhibits

Jane Lakes Harman: A Woman of Intelligence

An exhibition celebrating the life and work of U.S. Representative Jane Lakes Harman (Smith class of 1966), particularly her first three terms in Congress (1993-1998).

Across the Generations: Exploring U.S. History through Family Papers

A rich selection of documents and images portray American family life from the early nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century. From the collections of four families: the Bodmans, Dunhams, Garrisons, and Hales.

Agents of Social Change: New Resources on 20th-century Women's Activism

Featuring eight collections of 20th century progressive activists:  Constance Baker Motley, Dorothy Kenyon, Mary Kaufman, Frances Fox Piven, Jessie Lloyd O'Connor, and Gloria Steinem; and two grassroots feminist organizations:  the National Congress of Neighborhood Women and the Women's Action Alliance.

See what's currently on display in our Reading Room.

Digital Projects using SSC Documents and Images

Lesson Plans:  Agents of Social Change
Additional documents from the eight Agents of Social Change collections can be found in our curriculum section, accompanied by suggested Lesson Plans for teachers.

The Grant Family Papers
Portions of this collection can be found on the Five College Digitization Project site.

The Florence Sabin Papers
are featured in Profiles in Science on the National Library of Medicine Web site.

Garrison Family Papers (Martha Coffin Wright)

"How Did Abolitionist Women and Their Slaveholding Relatives Negotiate Their Conflict over the Issue of Slavery?"

National Congress of Neighborhood Women Records

"How Did Working-Class Feminists Meet the Challenges of Working across Differences?: The National Congress of Neighborhood Women, 1974-2006"

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