Get to Know...Women's History Month

In honor of Women's History Month 2024, we present a variety of resources on women's history available from Murray State University Libraries and beyond. As always, let us know if you have any questions about our collections or any of the information provided in our newsletters.

Access scholarly journals on Women's History via our BrowZine journal interface and/or our journal search page including:

• ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts 1640-1830
• Aspasia: The International Yearbook of Central, Eastern, and Southeastern European Women's and Gender History
• Clio: Women, Gender, History
• Early Modern Women
• Frontiers: A Journal of Women's Studies
• Journal of Middle East Women's Studies
• Magistra: A Journal of Women's Spirituality in History
• Mistral: Journal of Latin American Women's Intellectual & Cultural History (open access)
• Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society
• Women (Basel, Switzerland)
• Women & Criminal Justice
• Women and Music: A Journal of Gender and Culture
• Women's History Magazine
• Women's History Review
• Women's Studies
• Women's Studies in Communication
• WSQ: Women's Studies Quarterly

University Libraries selected Ebook Central as a major source of ebooks for our users. Ebook Central helps you to quickly and easily find relevant eBooks and chapters. There are additional features that let you highlight, take notes, and share your research. A search in our Ebook Central database returns over 800 women's history eBooks.

The Library of Congress (LOC) Digital Collections are extensive and in-depth. Check out the Women's History Collection, which includes Clara Barton Papers, Women's and Gender Studies Web Archive, and Women of Protest: Photographs from the Records of the National Woman's Party. The LOC offers images free of copyright restrictions in the Free to Use and Reuse Sets section of their website, including a collection curated in honor of Women's History Month as well as a collection of Images of African American Women Changemakers.

Image source: Bring U.S. together. Vote Chisholm , unbought and unbossed. , 1972. [United States: N.G. Slater Corporation] Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/2014646807/.

More about Shirley Chisholm:

https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/alice-paul

International Women's Day

March 8 is International Women's Day. The theme for 2024 is #InspireInclusion.

Murray State's Gender Equity Caucus (formerly Women’s Faculty Caucus)

Murray State's Women's Center

National Women's History Museum

A non-collecting, virtual, "museum without walls"

Women's History Month

A collaborative effort of the Library of Congress, National Archives and Records Administration, National Endowment for the Humanities, National Gallery of Art, National Park Service, Smithsonian Institution, and the United State Holocaust Museum

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