Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000

This is the editorial website for "Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000" (WASM). It offers access to selected materials on WASM and guidelines for prospective contributors.

This is NOT the actual website for WASM.

If your library subscribes to WASM, ask your reference librarian how to gain access. For information about subscriptions, click here.

In celebration of the thirtieth anniversary of the 1977 National Women's Conference in Houston,
we are pleased to announce that our document project on this historic event remain freely available through May 2009.

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Volume 12

Number 3 (September 2008)

Number 2 (June 2008)

Number 1 (March 2008)

Volume 11

Number 4 (December 2007)

Number 3 (September 2007)

Number 2 (June 2007)

Number 1 (March 2007)

Welcome! Organized around 85 document projects with 2600 primary documents, the Women and Social Movements website offers new ways for scholars, teachers, and scholars to study American History. You are currently on the editorial home page for the website.

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Announcing The Canadian Initiative, a special Canadian issue on women's activism since 1945 will include Canadian material will examine the diversity of experiences that have informed women's activism in Canada since 1945.

WASM Annual Prize

NEW INITIATIVE: Women and Public Life in Spanish North America to 1850

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WASM is jointly published by the Center for the Historical Study of Women and Gender at SUNY Binghamton and Alexander Street Press. It includes 32,000 pages of books, pamphlets, and proceedings -- in addition to its innovative document projects. (For access to the site, please click here to arrange a free 30-day trial subscription.)

Since March 2004, we have been an online quarterly journal (see current table of contents). We publish 5,000 pages of primary materials and eight new document projects each year, along with images, book and website reviews, news from the archives, and teaching tools that employ the site's documents.

The site also features a Dictionary of Social Movements, a Chronology of Women's History, an extensive author database, and Alexander Street Press's award-winning Semantic Indexing™. Together, these tools allow you to search the document projects and primary sources in ways that are impossible on a simple website. For more on how to use the expanded website, see our tips on how to navigate.

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Supported by funding from Alexander Street Press.
We gratefully acknowledge past funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Houghton Mifflin, and Pro Quest Information and Learning.

Site was last updated December 2, 2008.

Globe image from the cover of The World's Congress of Representative Women (1893)
The Weathervane image used throughout this site is:
Lucile Chabot, "Gabriel Weathervane," c. 1939, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.