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  • Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000

    Organized around the history of women in social movements in the U.S. between 1600 and 2000, this collection seeks to advance scholarly debates and understanding about U.S. history generally at the same time that it makes the insights of women's history accessible to teachers and students at universities, colleges, and high schools. The collection currently includes 91 document projects and archives with more than 3,600 documents and 150,000 pages of additional full-text documents, and more than 2,060 primary authors. The scholar's edition also includes book, film, and website reviews, notes from the archives, and teaching tools.

  • Women in The National Archives

    This collection consists of two distinct elements: a finding aid to women's studies resources in The National Archives (U.K.), and original documents on the suffrage question in Britain, the Empire and colonial territories. The original documents cover the campaign for women's suffrage in Britain, 1903-1928 and the granting of women's suffrage in colonial territories, 1930-1962.

  • Women Writers Online

    Early modern women's writing including prose, poetry and drama by women. Sponsored and developed by Brown University.

  • Women, War and Society, 1914-1918

    The First World War had a revolutionary and permanent impact on the personal, social and professional lives of all women. Their essential contribution to the war in Europe is fully documented in this definitive collection of primary source materials brought together in the Imperial War Museum, London. These unique documents include charity and international relief reports, pamphlets, photographs, press cuttings, magazines, posters, correspondence, minutes, records, diaries, memoranda, statistics, circulars, regulations and invitations.

  • Women's Magazine Archives

    An archival research resource comprising the backfiles of leading women's interest consumer magazines. Coverage ranges from the late-19th century through to 2005 and facilitates the examination of the events, trends, and attitudes of this period.

  • Women's Studies Archive

    Much of history is one-sided, focusing mainly on the male perspective and leaving women's voices unheard. Bringing women’s stories to light, the Women’s Studies Archive connects archival collections concerning women’s history from across the globe and from a wide range of sources. Focusing on the evolution of feminism throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the archive provides materials on women’s political activism, such as suffrage, birth control, pacifism, civil rights, and socialism, and on women’s voices, from female-authored literature to women’s periodicals.

  • Women's Voices and Life Writing, 1600-1968

    Women’s Voices and Life Writing, 1600-1968 brings together diaries and oral histories for the study of the lives and experiences of less well-known women, told through their own words. Featuring content from both regional and national archives across the UK and Ireland, users can explore the life course of hundreds of individuals from a diverse range of backgrounds.

  • Women’s Suffrage Collection

    A module within the History Commons collections, this collection provides access to fully searchable newspapers by and for women including The Lily (1849-1856), National Citizen and Ballot Box (1878-1881), The Revolution (1868-1872), The New Citizen (1909-1912), The Western Woman Voter (1911-1913), The Woman’s Tribune (1883-1909) and the antisuffrage newspaper, The Remonstrance (1890-1913). Subscription includes Parts I-VIII.

  • World Bank DataBank

    DataBank is an analysis and visualisation tool that contains collections of time series data on a variety of topics. You can create your own queries; generate tables, charts, and maps; and easily save, embed, and share them.

  • World Bank Documents and Reports

    All World Bank books, reports, working papers, and “Other research” since the 1990s.

  • World Bank Open Data Portal

    A comprehensive selection of economic, social and environmental indicators, drawing on data from the World Bank and more than 30 partner agencies.

  • World Bank Open Knowledge Repository

    All World Bank books, reports, working papers, and journal articles released after 2000 are freely available via the Open Knowledge Repository (OKR).

  • World Biographical Information System

    WBIS Online is the most comprehensive biographical database available, providing short biographical information on 5.24 Million people from the 8th century B.C. to the present. Included are 6.6 Million digital facsimile articles from biographical reference works on 4.6 Million people worldwide.

  • World Constitutions Illustrated

    Focusing on the study of historic and current constitutions of governments, this database enables scholars to##research constitutional and political developments of the nations of our world.

  • World Development Indicators Online

    The World Development Indicators (WDI) provides a comprehensive selection of economic, social and environmental indicators, drawing on data from the World Bank and more than 30 partner agencies. The database covers 209 economies with data back to 1965.

  • World Health Organization (WHO)

    WHO is the directing and coordinating authority for health within the United Nations system. It is responsible for providing leadership on global health matters, shaping the health research agenda, setting norms and standards, articulating evidence-based policy options, providing technical support to countries and monitoring and assessing health trends.

  • World Heritage Sites: Africa

    A collection of digital images, video and spatial data of African cultural heritage sites.

  • World News Connection, 1995-2013

    A valuable research tool for non-U.S. media sources, the material in WNC was supplied by the Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS). Analysts from FBIS domestic and overseas bureaus monitored timely and pertinent open-source materials. Coverage is 1995 through 2013, when the service was discontinued. For earlier coverage, see Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) Daily Reports, 1974 - 1996.

  • World Newspaper Archive

    A fully searchable collection of historical newspapers from around the globe. This uniquely comprehensive online resource was created in partnership with the Center for Research Libraries - one of the world's largest and most important newspaper repositories. Subscription includes America's Historical Newspapers and African Newspapers collections.

  • World Politics Review

    World Politics Review is a daily, online publication and resource for foreign policy professionals and readers with a serious interest in international politics and foreign affairs. Its original articles are written by a network of more than 400 contributors from around the world, including subject-matter experts from journalism, research organizations, academia, government, and elsewhere.