Social Sciences Online Teaching Resources

This multidisciplinary resource includes full-text, peer-reviewed journals, periodicals and magazines. Also included are more than 75,000 videos from the Associated Press, including footage from 1930-present. This database offers indexing and abstracts for over 10,000 publications including monographs, reports, and conference proceedings dating as far back as 1865, with the majority of titles in searchable PDF format.

The American Council of Learned Societies Humanities E-book Collection (ACLS HEB) is a collection of 5,700+ scholarly books from 125+ publishers. Michigan Publishing licenses included books, including investing in unique and otherwise hard to access backlist content.

This collection of papers spans the majority of the twentieth century, from 1912 to 1990. Scholars and students in twentieth-century American social history and politics will find this archive of special interest because of its focus on civil rights, civil liberties, race, gender, and issues relating to the U.S. Supreme Court. Subjects include: the first “Red Scare” following the Russian Revolution of 1917, debates in the 1920s on immigration, the American Birth Control League, lynchings in the 1930s, debates on aliens and immigrants in the years immediately preceding the U.S. entry into the Second World War, and the ACLU’s involvement in two of the mid-century’s most important issues: the Vietnam War and the Civil Rights movement. The files hold the letters of union organizers, labor activists, and members of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW). Documents include bills, briefs, correspondence, court documents, legal case files, memorandums, minutes, newspaper clippings, reports, scrapbooks, and telegrams.

This resource provides a robust and significant collection of primary sources for the historical study of sex, sexuality, and gender. With material dating back to the sixteenth century, researchers and scholars can examine how sexual norms have changed over time, health and hygiene, the development of sex education, the rise of sexology, changing gender roles, social movements and activism, erotica, and many other interesting topical areas. "LGBTQ History and Culture Since 1940" highlights the crosssectionality of individuals of different races, ethnicities, ages, religions, political orientations, and geographical locations that constitute the LGBTQ community as a whole.

Through letters and diaries, this collection provides access to the immediate experiences of women spanning more than 300 years. From 1696 through 1975, these primary sources document commonplace subjects such as entertainment, health, intellectual life, relationships, domestic life, religions, as well as first-hand experiences through revolutions and wars. The collection also includes biographies and an extensive annotated bibliography of the sources in the database.

This collection, compiled from Cuban sources, spans the period from Cuban independence to the end of the Batista regime. The collection sheds light on Cuban feminism, women in politics, literature by Cuban women and the legal status of Cuban women. Access provided to more than 16,000 images from the personal collection Dr. K. Lynn Stoner and date from 1898 to 1958. Drawing on primary source texts such as personal letters, journal essays, radio broadcasts, and memoirs from women's congresses, this collection provides a documentary explanation of how a small group of women and men helped to shape broad legal reforms, by describing their campaigns, the version of feminism they adopted with all its contradictions, and contrasts it to the model of American feminism.

This database provides indexing and abstracts covering the full spectrum of gender-related scholarship inside and outside academia. It indexes scholarly and popular publications, including professional journals, conference papers, books, book chapters, discussion & working papers, theses, and dissertations. Subjects include gender inequality, masculinity, post-feminism, and gender identity.

Formerly known as LGBT Life with Full Text, this database provides scholarly and popular Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer (LGBTQ+) publications in full-text, plus historically important primary sources, including monographs, journals, magazines, books, and newspapers. Topics covered include LGBT Studies, issues affecting the lives of LGBTQ+ people, queer theory, and more. Explore first-person narrative videos from the nonprofit organization, I'm From Driftwood, whose mission is to increase empathy, understanding, and acceptance while creating a sense of belonging and community. It also includes a specialized LGBTQ+ thesaurus containing thousands of related terms.

This resource provides full-text access to the personal writings of North American women from all classes and walks of life, from colonial times to 1950. All age groups, all life stages, many ethnicities, and many geographical regions are represented. Some writings are by prominent women, while others provide insight into the everyday lives of ordinary women. Whenever possible, the collection includes biographical information about the author of each document. Materials and collection data have been drawn from a variety of sources, including unpublished letters and diaries, journal articles, pamphlets, newsletters, monographs, and conference proceedings.

This collection is comprised of records of three women’s rights organizations: the National Woman’s Party, the League of Women Voters, and the Women’s Action Alliance. It also searches the Citizens Advisory Council on the Status of Women, Records of the National Association of Colored Women’s Clubs, 1895-1992, the papers of the NAACP, and the records of other major civil rights organizations. Key topics covered include women, women's rights, women's organizations, professional correspondence, administrative and organizational records, international relations, National Woman's Party, World Woman's Party, women's suffrage movement, constitutional amendments, conference proceedings, books and reports, and reproductive health.

This collection is a resource for students and scholars of U.S. history and U.S. women's history, bringing together resources documenting aspects of American women's public lives and political activities. Organized around the history of women in social movements in the U.S. between 1600 and 2000, the collection currently includes more than 145 document projects and archives with more than 9,500 books and documents, 1,500 images, and 191,000 pages of additional full-text documents, written by 2,800 primary authors. This digital collection also includes book, film, and website reviews, notes from the archives, a dictionary of social movements and organizations, a chronology of U.S. Women's History, and teaching tools. This site also has an online edition of the five-volume biographical dictionary, Notable American Women (1971-2004) and an Online Biographical Dictionary of the Woman Suffrage Movement in the U.S. which includes biographical sketches of grassroots suffrage activists.

Women Writers Online is a full-text collection of early women’s writing in English, published by the Women Writers Project at Northeastern University. It includes full transcriptions of 450+ texts published between 1526 and 1850, focusing on materials that are rare or inaccessible. Genre categories include non-fiction, verse, fiction, and drama.

This bibliographic database for women's studies and feminist research provides indexing and abstracts for gender-focused journals, newsletters, bulletins, books, book chapters, NGO studies, websites and web documents, reports, theses, dissertations, and grey literature from throughout the world. It is relevant to many disciplines, including sociology, history, international relations and humanities. Most material cited is in English; some in French-Canadian, Spanish, or other languages.