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Communication & Mass Media Complete
Good for: Finding scholarship in communication and mass media studies, including journalism and popular culture.
Contains: Journal articles.
Dates covered: 1900-current date
Update frequency: weekly
Communication & Mass Media Complete contains journal articles in the fields of communication and mass media studies. It merges CommSearch (formerly produced by the NCA, National Communication Association) and the Mass Media Articles Index (formerly produced by Pennsylvania State University). Communication & Mass Media Complete provides current issues and backfiles of in the fields of communication and mass media.
Communication and Media Studies
Good for: Researching communication and media studies.
Contains: Full text of 16 communication studies journals.
Dates covered: 1950-current date.
This communication collection includes the full text of journals published by Sage and participating societies. It covers such subjects as journalism, public opinion, political communication, mass communication, interpersonal communication, cultural studies, intercultural communication, television & film studies, media studies, business communication, organizational & management communication, written communication, rhetoric, and literacy studies.
ComAbstracts
Good for: Researching communication studies.
Contains: Abstracts of articles published in communication studies literature.
Dates covered: 1915-present.
JSTOR
An archive of more than 700 important scholarly journals covering business, ecology, education, ethnic studies, history, literature, mathematics, music, philosophy, political science, and sociology with content ending 3-5 years ago
JSTOR digitally archives more than 700 scholarly journals. Subjects include African-American studies, anthropology, Asian studies, business, ecology, economics, education, finance, history, literature, mathematics, music, philosophy, political science, and more.
Gerritsen Collection-Women's History Online, 1543-1945
1543-1945
Books and periodicals reflecting the evolution of a feminist consciousness and the movement for women's rights.
Women and Social Movements in the United States
1600-2000
Books, images, historical documents, scholarly essays, commentaries, and bibliographies which document reform activities by and affecting women.
America's Historical Newspapers
1690-1923
Historical newspapers from every state in the U.S.
Historical Newspapers: Los Angeles Times
1881-2015
Historical California newspaper.
Historical Newspapers: New York Tribune, 1841-1922
1841-1922
Full text of New York Tribune, 1841-1922.
Historical Newspapers: New York Times
1851-2020
Historical New York newspaper.
Historical Newspapers: Chicago Tribune
1849-2014
Major daily newspaper from Chicago.
GenderWatch
1974-
Publications on gender issues. International publications as well as reports, pamphlets, papers, and conference proceedings devoted to gender issues.
Update frequency: quarterly
Congressional Publications (ProQuest Congressional)
Type in keywords such as: woman suffrage (and others) to access Congressional hearings, laws, etc., related to women's issues. You can limit by time period to focus on the specific era.

Book Examples

Woman Suffrage & Women's Rights
Call Number: E-book
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, feminist as thinker a reader in documents and essays Ellen Carol DuBois 1947-; Richard Cándida Smith; ebrary, Inc
Call Number: E-book
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, correspondence, writings, speeches
Call Number: HQ1412 .S72 1981
Articulating rights : nineteenth-century American women on race, reform, and the state Alison M. Parker (Alison Marie), 1965- DeKalb : Northern Illinois University Press c2010 Available at Lied Library Book Stacks (HQ1236.5.U6 P37 2010 )
Word, like fire Maria Stewart, the Bible, and the rights of African Americans
Call Number: E-book
A brighter coming day : a Frances Ellen Watkins Harper reader
Call Number: PS1799.H7 A6 1990

Web Resources Focusing on Women's Rights

Susan B. Anthony Museum & House
The Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Susan B. Anthony Papers Project (Rutgers)
National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress)
Part of the "American Memory" digital archive of the Library of Congress, this website provides access to the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) Collection, which consists of 167 books, pamphlets and other artifacts documenting the suffrage campaign.
Suffragists Oral History Project
In the early 1970s the Suffragists Oral History Project, under the auspices of the U.C. Berkeley's Bancroft Library's Regional Oral History Office, collected interviews with twelve leaders and participants in the woman's suffrage movement. Under the running title of "The Suffragists: From Tea-Parties to Prison," those interviews are now available online through this webpage.
The Emma Goldman Papers
n influential and well-known anarchist of her day, Goldman was an early advocate of free speech, birth control, women's equality and independence, and union organization. Site includes Goldman's publications, primary sources, etc.
African American Women Leaders in the Suffrage Movement

African-American orators a bio-critical sourcebook
Call Number: E-book

Biographical Sources (Databases, e-books, etc.)

American National Biography
Over 19,000 biographies of significant, influential or notorious figures from American history written by prominent scholars.

Print edition: Lied Library LASR - ASK AT LIED CIRC DESK CT213 .A68 1999

Black Women in America by Darlene Clark Hine
Call Number: E185.86 .B542 2005

Biography (Gale In Context)
Images, brief biographies, and links to magazine articles and websites about notable people.
Biography Resource Center provides biographical information on more than 185,000 people from throughout history, around the world, and across all disciplines and subject areas. Contains approximately 250,000 biographies and complete articles from nearly 250 periodicals. Search for people based on one or more personal facts such as birth and death years and places, nationality, ethnicity, occupation, or gender, or combine criteria.
Biography Reference Bank
1981-

Biographical information on approximately half a million people from antiquity to present, with some images.Limited to 4 simultaneous users.
Update frequency: annual
Contains biographical information on more than 400,000 people from antiquity to the present including more than 110,000 biographies. Biography Reference Bank brings together Biography Index, Current Biography Illustrated, the World Author Series, Nobel Prize Winners, World Artists, World Film Directors, American Reformers, and more into one database.