Women's History

American Slave Narratives Journalists and other writers employed by the Federal Writers Project, part of the New Deal's Works Progress Administration (WPA), gathered the American Slave Narratives during 1936-1938. 2,000 interviews with ex-slaves were collected during these years of the Great Depression and eventually compiled by George P. in The American Slave: A Composite Autobiography, 1979.
http://newdeal.feri.org/asn/index.htm

Berkeley history research
Research gallery covers such topics as Viet Nam war; United Nations; Civil Rights; women's roles; work of democracy; cinematography and human values; peace - middle east
http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/PubEd/research/

Internet Women's History Sourcebook, Fordham University
Collections of public domain and copy-permitted historical texts presented cleanly (without advertising or excessive layout) for educational use. This sourcebook attempts to present online documents and secondary discussions which reflect the various ways of looking at the history of women within broadly defined historical periods and areas.
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/women/womensbook.html

Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers
http://www.unl.edu/legacy/legacy.htm

National Museum of Women in the Arts
http://www.nmwa.org/index.htm

National Women's History Project
A Resource for Information ... A Womans Place is... in the Curriculum - 2002 Teaching Conference, a catalog listing of products. The National Women's History Project is a non-profit educational corporation with 501(c)3
http://www.nwhp.org/

Sojourner Truth speech: Aint I a Woman
http://www.womenwriters.net/domesticgoddess/truth.htm

Women Artists Through Time, University of Wisconsin, River Falls.
http://www.uwrf.edu/history/women.html

Women in Tennessee History: A Bibliography
Provides links on important women in TN history and a brief bibliography on coeducation in TN.
www.mtsu.edu/~library/wtn/wtn-educ.html

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