American Journey Online. This is a library of documents encompassing American History – the African American Experience; The American Revolution; the Asian-American Experience; Civil Rights; The Civil War; The Cold War; The Constitution and Supreme Court; The Great Depression and the New Deal; The Hispanic-American Experience; The Immigrant Experience; The Native American Experience; Westward Expansion; Women in America; World War I and the Jazz Age; The Vietnam Era. Each key topic encompasses hundreds of carefully selected, rare documents, pictures, and archival audio and video – while essays, headnotes, and captions by scholars set the sources in context.
Available electronically: go to http://www.usc.edu/libraries, select Databases.

Civil Rights. This collection of primary source materials offers a panoramic view of the history of civil rights in the United States. Documents, images, audio, and video provide users an in-depth look at the full range of rights that constitute America’s democratic tradition. The collection of materials examines in detail such topics as free speech, freedom of the press, freedom of religion, obscenity and secrecy laws, privacy rights, the rights of the accused and the convicted, the right to vote, and equal rights for African Americans, women, Native Americans, and immigrants. This collection also offers a glimpse at disputed rights, from abortion and gun control to gay rights and the death penalty, as well as newly emergent rights, such as the right to die, animal rights, environmental rights, and children’s rights.
Available electronically: go to http://www.usc.edu/libraries, select Databases.

Defining Gender 1450-1910. This project brings together approximately 60,000 images of original manuscript and printed material, including a strong core of documents from the Bodleian Library, Oxford. Ephemeral material such as ballads, cartoons and pamphlets is featured alongside diaries, advice literature, medical journals, conduct books and periodicals. Structured into the following five sections: Conduct and Politeness; Domesticity and the Family; Consumption and Leisure; Education and Sensibility; and The Body. Available electronically: go to http://www.usc.edu/libraries, select Databases.

Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO). Electronic text of 150,000 English language publications from 1701-1800.
Available electronically: go to http://www.usc.edu/libraries, select Databases. The publications in ECCO are also listed in HOMER.

Empire Online, 1492-1969. This offers original documents linked to essays by leading scholars in the field. Topics covered: Cultural Contacts, 1492-1969; Empire Writing and the Literature of Empire; The Visible Empire; Religion and Empire; and Race, Class and Colonialism, c1783-1969.
Available electronically: go to http://www.usc.edu/libraries, select Databases.

GenderWatch. A repository of full text materials related to gender studies; emphasis particularly in the social sciences and gender theories. Includes many small publications.
Available electronically: go to http://www.usc.edu/libraries, select Databases.

The Gerritsen Collection, 1543-1945. This is the greatest single source for the study of women’s history in the world, with materials spanning four centuries and fifteen languages. Researchers can trace the evolution of feminism within a single country, as well as the impact of one country’s movement on those of the others.
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Godey’s Ladys Book (1830-1880). In 1830, in Philadelphia, Louis Antoine Godey (1804-1878) commenced the publication of Godey’s Ladys Book which he designed specifically to attract the growing audience of American women. The magazine was intended to entertain, inform, and educate the women of America. In addition to extensive fashion descriptions and plates, the early issues included biographical sketches, articles about mineralogy, handcrafts, female costume, the dance, equestrienne procedures, health & hygiene, recipes & remedies, etc.
Available electronically: go to http://www.usc.edu/libraries, select Databases.

Victorian Women Writers Project. The goal of the project is to produce highly accurate transcriptions of works by British women writers of the 19th century.The works include anthologies, novels, political pamphlets, religious tracts, children’s books, and volumes of poetry and verse drama.
Available electronically: go to http://www.usc.edu/libraries, select Databases.

Women and Social Movements in the United States. This collection brings together books, images, documents, scholarly essays, commentaries, and bibliographies, documenting the multiplicity of women’s activism in public life.
Available electronically: go to http://www.usc.edu/libraries, select Databases.

Women in America. An unparalleled gathering of letters, speeches, photographs, works of art, articles and audio clips chronicle the history of women in America from colonial times into the 1990s. Writers, rebels, suffragists, pacifists, pioneers, spies and slaves – these women, prominent and obscure, offer their experiences for a broader, deeper, more varied understanding of the role of gender in U.S. history.
Available electronically: go to http://www.usc.edu/libraries, select Databases.

ATLA Religion. An index to articles in religion.
Available electronically: go to http://www.usc.edu/libraries, select Databases.

Anthropological Literature. An index to articles in anthropology.
Available electronically: go to http://www.usc.edu/libraries, select Databases.

Contemporary Women’s Issues. Provides access to global information on women. Indexes books, journals, newsletters, research reports from non-profit groups, government and international agency reports, and fact sheets. Includes links to full text articles for many publications. Topics covered are education, reproductive rights, gender equity, women’s health, human rights, women’s legal status, women’s status in the workplace, etc. Covers over 150 countries.
Available electronically: go to http://www.usc.edu/libraries, select Databases.

ERIC, 1966-. The most comprehensive coverage of published and unpublished sources on thousands of educational topics.
Available electronically: go to http://www.usc.edu/libraries, select Databases.

GenderWatch. A repository of full text materials related to gender studies; emphasis particularly in the social sciences and gender theories. Includes many small publications.
Available electronically: go to http://www.usc.edu/libraries, select Databases.

Historical Abstracts and America History and Life. Two indexes to articles in history, one covering non-US history from 1450 onward, the other covering the Americas.
Available electronically: go to http://www.usc.edu/libraries, select Databases.

Houghton, Walter Edwards, 1904- ed. The Wellesley index to Victorian periodicals, 1824-1900; tables of contents and identification of contributors, with bibliographies of their articles and stories. [Toronto] University of Toronto Press [1966]. 5 vols.
Doheny Reference Z2005.H6.

Humphreys, Nancy K. American women’s magazines: an annotated historical guide. New York: Garland, 1989.
Doheny Reference Z6944.W6H85 1989

JSTOR. A collection of many scholarly journals online.
Available electronically: go to http://www.usc.edu/libraries, select Databases.

Proquest and Lexis/Nexis. These two databases cover newspapers, journals, and magazines in a variety of fields.
Available electronically: go to http://www.usc.edu/libraries, select Databases.

ProQuest Digital Dissertations and Theses. As of 2006 included are approximately 650,000 titles, with around 55,000 titles added each year. Covers the United States, and provides full text for dissertations from 1996 to present and for many dissertations prior to 1996.
Available electronically: go to http://www.usc.edu/libraries, select Databases.

PsycInfo and PsycArticles. These two databases cover the field of psychology.
Available electronically: go to http://www.usc.edu/libraries, select Databases.

Sociological Abstracts. An index to articles in sociology.
Available electronically: go to http://www.usc.edu/libraries, select Electronic Resources.

University of Wisconsin Women’s Studies Librarian’s Website. Information on publications and publishers, magazines, programs and research centers, and women’s organizations.
Available electronically: http://www.library.wisc.edu/libraries/WomensStudies/.

Victorian Database Online. Interdisciplinary in coverage, contains information on publications from 500+ journals on Painting, Architecture and Music; Philosophy and Religion; Histories of England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland, and the British Colonial Empire; Sociology, and Women.
Available electronically: go to http://www.usc.edu/libraries, select Databases.

ViVa: a Bibliography of Women’s History in Historical and Women’s Studies, 1975-. A current bibliography of articles about women’s and gender history. Articles published in English, French, German, Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish are selected from approximately 200 European, American, Canadian, Asian, Australian and New Zealand journals.
Available electronically: go to http://www.usc.edu/libraries, select Databases.

Women’s Studies International. Covers several bibliographic women’s studies databases in the core disciplines.
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Bailey, Martha J. American women in science: 1950 to the present: a biographical dictionary. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 1998.
Doheny Reference, Q141.B254 1998

Bataille, Gretchen M., ed. Native American women: a biographical dictionary. New York: Garland, 1993.
Doheny Reference E98.W8B38 1993

Dimand, Robert W., ed. A biographical dictionary of women economists. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 2000.
Doheny Reference HB76.B535 2000

James, Edward T., ed. Notable American women, 1607-1950; a biographical dictionary. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1971. 3 vols.
Doheny Reference CT3260.N57

Lee, Lily Xiao Hong, ed. Biographical dictionary of Chinese women: the Qing Period, 1644-1911. Armonk, N.Y: M.E. Sharpe, 1998.
Doheny Reference HQ1767.5.A3B56 1998

Lightman, Marjorie. Biographical dictionary of ancient Greek and Roman women: notable women from Sappho to Helena. New York: Facts On File, 2000.
Doheny Reference HQ1136.L54 2000

Madden, W. C. The women of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League: a biographical dictionary. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Co., 1997.
Doheny Reference GV875.A56M34 1997

Salem, Dorothy C., ed. African American women: a biographical dictionary. New York: Garland, 1993.
Doheny Reference E185.96.A45 1993

Signorielli, Nancy, ed. Women in communication: a biographical sourcebook. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1996.
Doheny Reference P94.5 .W65 W667 1996

Shearer, Benjamin F., ed. Notable women in the life sciences: a biographical dictionary. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1996.
Doheny Reference QH26.N68 1996

Tompkins, Cynthia Margarita, ed. Notable twentieth-century Latin American women: a biographical dictionary. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2001.
Doheny Reference CT3290.N68 2001

Ware, Susan, ed. Notable American women: a biographical dictionary completing the twentieth century. Cambridge, Mass: Belknap Press, 2004.
Doheny Reference CT3260.N5725 2004

Willard, Frances E., ed. Great American women of the 19th century: a biographical encyclopedia. Amherst, N.Y.: Humanity Books, 2005.
Doheny Reference CT3260.A4725 2005

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