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Women and the American Experience : Selected Resources

		Background Information and Reference Sources

		Women in American History: A Bibliography. 1985. [Ref 016.3054/W842] Women's Work in Britain and America: From the Nineties to World War I: An Annotated Bibliography. 1982. [Ref 016.3314/M167] Encyclopedia of American Social History Women Their Changing Roles. 1973. [Ref 301.412/N489w] What Can A Woman Do: Or Her Position in the Business and Literary World. 1896. [Ref 301.412/R218] A Woman of the Century: 1470 Biographical Sketches Accompanied by Portraits of Leading American Women in All Walks of Life. 1893. [Ref 301.421/W661] Handbook of Women's History What Every American Should Know About Women's History: 200 Events That Shaped Our Destiny Women's Issues Woman Words: A Dictionary of Words About Women American Women in the Twentieth Century A Century of Women: The Most Influential Events in Twentieth Century Women's History Encyclopedia of Social History Handbook of American Popular Culture Handbook of Marriage and the Family Historical Statistics of the United States, Colonial Times to 1970. 2 volumes. 1975. [Ref 317.3/Un3h] Encyclopedia of American Education Fashion and Reality (1840-1914). 1981. [391.009/G319] Historical Dictionary of American Slang Encyclopedia of Herbs Encyclopedia of Medical History The American Century: Art and Culture, 1900-1950 "Travel Writing in the Twentieth Century." TCLC 30:407-56. "Colonial America: The Intellectual Background." LC 25:1-98. "Travel Writing in the Nineteenth Century." NCLC 44:274-392. "Women's Diaries, Nineteenth Century." NCLC 48:308-54. Time Lines on File Maine: A Guide "Down East." 1937. [Ref 917.41/F317] Magnificent Mainers Women of Maine. 1982. [Ref 920.72/Ag38] Women of New England Remarkable Women of the Twentieth Century Black Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia Notable American Women . 4 volumes. 1980. [Ref 920.72/J232] Dictionary of National Biography. 31 volumes. [Ref 920.942/D56] Annals of America. 20 volumes. [Ref 973/Ad59a] American Decades Encyclopedia of American Facts and Dates Readers' Companion to American History Dictionary of American History . 6 volumes. 1940. [Ref 973.03/Ad1] Encyclopedia of Colonial and Revolutionary America The Gay Nineties in America: A Cultural Dictionary of the 1890s Our Times . 6 volumes. 1935. [Ref 973.9/Su55] This Fabulous Century. 7 volumes. 1970. [Ref 973.9/T482] Sex: Avoided Subjects Discussed in Plain English. 1922. [Ref 973.9/W84L] The Book of Culture , by Harriet Lane. 1922. [Ref 973.9/W84] The Encyclopedia of New England Portland City Guide . 1940. [974.191/P837c]

		Using The Catalog

		You will find materials under subject headings and keywords such as:

		Aged Women Baby Boom Generation Children--History Childrearing--United States Civil Rights Movements--United States Civil War, 1861-1865 Domesticity Eckstorm, Fannie Family--United States Friedan, Betty Frontier and Pioneer Life Gilded Age Housewives--History Industrial Revolution Maine-- Midwifery Motherhood Smith, Margaret Chase Textile Industry United States--History -- Voyages and Travels Women and Religion--United States--History Women Pioneers Women Social Life and Customs Women Social reformers Women Southern States Women Suffrage Women Textile Workers Women Travelers Women--United States--History Women--United States--Social Conditions Women--West (U.S.) Women World War Working Class World War, 1914-1918 World War, 1939-1945

		Electronic Periodical Databases

		American Civil War: Letters and Diaries

		Arts & Humanities Search indexes more than 1,300 of the world's leading arts and humanities journals and selected articles from more than 5,800 social science and science journals.

		North American Women's Letters and Diaries, Colonial-1950

		Periodical Contents Index is a database indexing the contents of older issues of periodicals in the humanities and social sciences. PCI covers 1961-1991.

		ProQuest Research Library indexes summaries of articles from over 5,000 publications, with many in full text, full image format. Indexing and abstracting backfiles date back to 1986. Broad subject areas include the humanities and women's interest.

		Maine Newstand provides full-text coverage of Maine newspapers from 1995, including the Bangor Daily News and Portland Press Herald, plus selected coverage of other regional sources.

		America: History and Life is the database of choice for American Studies topics. A:HL is a comprehensive file including abstracting and indexing of the full range of U.S. and Canadian history, area studies, current affairs and literature. It includes coverage of history, interdisciplinary studies of historical interest, and history-related topics in the humanities from 1982 forward.
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		Periodical Indexes

		The Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature is a paper index providing periodical indexing back to 1890. It is available in the Abplanalp Library reference area.

		American Heritage Cumulative Index , December 1954 - October 1982.

		National Geographic Index , 1888-1988.

		Index to Yankee Magazine , 1935-1978.
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		Journals

		The following journals from the UNE Libraries will be especially helpful: American Historical Review American Literary History American Literature American Studies International Colby (Library) Quarterly Down East J. of American Culture J. of American History J. of American Studies J. of Popular Culture Legacy Maine Historical Society Quarterly Maine History New England Quarterly Nineteenth Century Literature Signs Women's Studies Women's Studies Quarterly

		Internet Sources

		Maine Women Writers Collection Maine Writers Index A Celebration of Women Writers Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman (1852-1930) Judith Fetterley 19th Century Bibliographic Project History of the Suffrage Movement Legacy Society for the Study of American Women Writers

		Roberta (Bobby) Gray, public services librarian, University of New England Libraries, Westbrook College Campus, 716 Stevens Ave., Portland, ME 04103

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