The editors of Women and Social Movements are pleased to announce the first recipient of the website’s annual prize of $500 for the best scholarly or classroom use of the website’s full-text sources.  The prize committee has selected Dr. Jami Carlacio and her students in a Cornell University course.  Titled “Wit, Wisdom, and Courage:  Women’s Activism in the United States,” the Fall 2007 course asked students to write final papers that drew on WASM’s full text sources.  These papers were posted on Dr. Carlacio’s innovative course website.  The December 2008 issue of WASM will include a link to that website.  .
 

Women and Social Movements now offers the following full text sources.  

(1)  Proceedings of the Women’s Antislavery conventions, 1837-1839
(2) Proceedings of the Women's Rights Conventions, 1848-1869;
(3) Published sources related to the woman suffrage movement, 1830-1930, including the six-volume History of Woman Suffrage, 1848-1922;
(4) Minutes of the annual national conventions of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, 1874-1898. 
(5) Publications by the League of Women Voters, 1920-2000.

Submissions for the 2009 Annual Prize should take one of the following forms:  (1) a scholarly article of not more than 10,000 words, (2) a bibliographic essay illuminating the sources, (3) a document project or (4) a class project.  The winning entry will be selected by a prize committee drawn from the Women and Social Movements editorial board and will be published on the Women and Social Movements website.

The submission deadline for the 2009 prize is 1 April 2009.  Submissions should be made electronically to Kathryn Kish Sklar at kksklar@binghamton.edu.  Feel free to write to Professor Sklar in advance to discuss any project you are considering submitting.

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