Links -- Writing About Women and Work

African American Women Writers of the 19th Century
http://digital.nypl.org/schomburg/writers_aa19/

American Life Histories: Manuscripts from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1940
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/wpaintro/wpahome.html

International Institute for Social History (Netherlands)
http://www.iisg.nl

Labor Studies Home Page, Evergreen
http://192.211.16.13/CURRICULAR/labor/home.html

Labor History Timeline
http://www.kentlaw.edu/ilhs/curricul.htm

Primary Sources on Women and Work
http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/library/kheel/guides/womenwork.html

Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1830-1930
http://womhist.binghamton.edu/index.html

The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/trianglefire/

University of Maryland Women's Studies Database
http://www.inform.umd.edu:8080/EdRes/Topic/WomensStudies/

What Did You Do in the War, Grandma? -- Oral histories of World War II
http://www.stg.brown.edu/projects/WWII_Women/

 

Writing Links

Here are some writing/editing links from the Poynter Institute:

http://www.poynter.org/dj/tips/reporting/copy.htm
(a good source for peer editing the first draft of women's work history papers.)

http://www.poynter.org/Research/rwe/rwe_reporting.htm
(another peer editing source.)

http://www.poynter.org/Research/rwe/rwe_reporting.htm
(although some of the examples are news writing, this site gives a step-by-step approach to the information gathering (reporting) and writing process and is adaptable to writing creative nonfiction and oral histories.)

http://www.poynter.org/Research/rwe/rwe_writetools.htm
( writing nuts and bolts )

 

Geneology Links

Latter Day Saints site (global, various religions, ethnicities)
http://www.familysearch.org

Jewish website
http://www.jewishgen.org

General geneology site with lots of links. Good starting place -
http://www.cyndislist.com

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