There's a lot of emphasis these days on teaching students how to use primary source materials. And there's great interest among W&M students in women's issues.
A newly purchased database, Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000: Scholar's Edition, helps meet both of these needs. In contains thousands of primary source materials and is easy to search. Here are just a few examples of what you'll find:
How Did Local Antislavery Women Form National Networks in the Antebellum United States?, a collection of about 50 primary-source documents related to this topic.
"The Perplexed Housekeeper," a poem by Frances Dana Gage from 1870.
Documents about the work done by the Ladies' Association of Philadelphia to raise funds for the Continental Army.
The League of Women Voters records from 1920-2000.
Mother Goose as a Suffragette, a booklet of variations on traditional nursery rhymes, published by the Woman Suffrage Party in 1912. Here's "This is the Remedy:"
This is the Remedy
That is needed by the housewife
That is oppressed by the trust
That owns the politician
That paid the money
That bought the ballot
That elected the Legislature
That lives in the house that Jack built.THE END
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