Best of the Web: History & Social Sciences

Provides information about domestic violence, sexual assault, and stalking.

A free public-service wiki for genealogy sponsored by the Foundation for On-Line Genealogy with the Allen County Public Library. You can upload GEDCOM files, upload and annotate scanned documents and photos, include family stories and biographies, and generate maps of your ancestors' life events.

Provides an archive of web resources on Western Europe, organized by nation.

Collection of Articles.

The Columbia Journalism Review's alphabetical list of media companies and the subsidiaries they own, including publishers and broadcast media companies.

An annual sponsered by the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University and The National Council of Teachers of English, accessible from volume 1, Fall 1992.

Wine-tasting notes from "non-experts". The wineries are in the area of Northern California.

Author interviews, poetry, childrens titles, and more, most of them in RealAudio.

Consult this comprehensive and current list of bibliographies from the University of Wisconsins Womens Studies Librarians Office.

The purpose of WSSLINKS is to provide access to a wide range of resources in support of Women's Studies

By providing a rich collection of primary documents. . .the Women and Social Movements website offers new ways for students, teachers, and scholars to study American history." Includes more than 600 documents and over 100 images accesible via a search engine.

Curriculum resources which support a scholarly examination of womens experiences during the Holocaust.

United Methodist Church marks 50th anniversary of full clergy rights for women.

"Our goal was to design a Website that can engage the public and school children in the day-to-day science of women marine scientists. Through thisproject, we hope to encourage young woman to pursue careers in scienceand to remove the mystery that surrounds being a scientist. Over the courseof a year we will highlight twelve women, underscoring the different careerpaths in science and the diversity of the women who choose science as acareer."

Encyclopaedia Britannica site contains hundred of articles on American women from 1600 to the present.

Women in Black is an international peace network, a means of mobilization. Women in Black "stand in silent vigil to protest war, rape as a tool of war, ethnic cleansing and human rights abuses all over the world".

A pathfinder of sources from the Duke University Libraries System.

The books and letters in this online exhibition present a cross section of writing by English women in the nineteenth century.

Chronicles classic lesbian pulp fiction of the 1950s and early 1960s. From the Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture at Duke University.

"Women Make Movies is a multicultural, multiracial, non-profit media arts organization which facilitates the production, promotion, distribution and exhibition of independent films and videotapes by and about women."

Brief biographical sketches accompany "photographs of some of twentieth century America's famous and influential women."

Correspondence, scrapbooks, clippings, college records, images, diaries, publications and ephemera documenting the history of women physicians beginning with the first medical school for women, Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania.

A Listing of songs published in the United States and England, ca. 1890-1930.

This collection explores women's roles in the US economy between the Civil War and the Great Depression by providing access to historical manuscipts, images and other primary sources.

"The Brown University Women Writers Project is a long-term research project devoted to early modern women's writing and electronic text encoding. Our goal is to bring texts by pre-Victorian women writers out of the archive and make them accessible to a wide audience of teachers, students, scholars, and the general reader."

A "database maintained by the University of Wisconsin System Women's Studies Librarian's Office that lists documentary, experimental, and feature film and video productions by and about women. The information has been drawn entirely from distributors' and producers' catalogs and websites, reviews in periodicals, filmographies, reference works, and library catalogs. . ."

"The National Women's Health Information Center (NWHIC) is the most reliable and current information resource on womens health today. We offer FREE womens health information on more than 800 topics through our call center and website."

Among the many women's issues covered are education, equality, feminist theory, health, labor and employment, marriage and family, political rights, property laws, housing, prostitution, race and gender, religion, and violence.

This site provides "easy-to-understand legal information to women living with or escaping domestic violence."

Website for The Council of Women's Ministries which "exists to bring together the leaders of the national organizations which have women's ministries within the Episcopal Church, promote communication, increase the effectiveness of women's ministries, support the different gifts, values and ministries of women, and advance the role of women in the mission of the Church."

Website presented by "Roman Catholic theologians who firmly believe that the discussion on women priests should be left open. . . We offer over 1000 documents in English relevant to the ordination of women. They cover decrees of councils and synods, statements by the Fathers of the Church and medieval theologians, historical records, contemporary articles, classical publications, discussions on scripture, tradition and the teaching authority, picture galleries and much more."

Transcripts and videos of interviews with political leaders, activists, sociologists and others. Includes a timeline related to the issue of women's rights, a glossary, and student activities.

Directory of online resources whose sections include: Digital Publications General Directories Women's History Women's Health Women in the Ancient World Women & the Law Women & Religion Women in Science.

Research guide produced by the New York Public Library.

Includes travel diaries, journals, and other publications. Includes women travellers from and to the United States, as well as selected American and European women travellers to non-Western areas. Searchable.

Organization which describes itself as the "central gateway to information and resources on the promotion of gender equality and the empowerment of women throughout the United Nations system, including the United Nations Secretariat, regional commissions, funds, programmes, specialized agencies and academic and research institutions."

Features articles related to spices and their uses.

This timeline includes images, posters, maps, political cartoons, newspaper clippings, and diagrams.

"The WorldGenWeb Project is a non-profit, volunteer based organization dedicated to providing genealogical and historical records and resources for world-wide access."

This site contains full texts of the "(almost) complete published works of Darwin in digitized citable form with original page numbers, illustrations etc" Includes essential bibliographical information.

The premier search directory for women online.

Searchable full-text and page images of newspapers printed in Wyoming between 1849 and 1922.

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Digitized, historical maps.

(Coe Collection of Western Americana)