March 2016

News from the Archives provides readers with news concerning U.S. Women's History from archives and repositories with collections and projects of interest. If you are affiliated with an archive or repository and would like to submit an announcement that you feel would be of interest to our readers, please contact Tanya Zanish-Belcher at zanisht@wfu.edu.

Archives for Research on Women and Gender, Georgia State University
http://library.gsu.edu/search-collections/special-collections-archives/archives-for-research-on-women-and-gender/

This archives documents women-centered activism in the southeast and Georgia in the 20th and 21st century. The collections include women's organizational records such as Altrusa and Planned Parenthood; the personal papers of feminists such as Betty Grant; and local chapters including Georgians for Choice. Several oral history projects are also included, documenting the women's movement in Georgia.

Sallie Bingham Center, Duke University
http://library.duke.edu/rubenstein/bingham/lisa-unger-baskin

The Lisa Unger Baskin Collection arrived at Duke University in April 2015. Created and collected by bibliophile and activist Unger Baskin, the focus of the collection is women's work through the ages. The collection includes many well-known monuments of women's history and arts, as well as lesser-known works produced by female scholars, printers, publishers, laborers, scientists, authors, artists, and political activists. Taken together, they comprise a mosaic of the ways that women have been productive, creative, and socially engaged over more than five hundred years.

Blogs of Interest:

Iowa Women's Archives, University of Iowa:
http://blog.lib.uiowa.edu/iwa

Library of Congress: Celebrating Women's History on Pinterest:
http://blogs.loc.gov/loc/2015/03/celebrating-women-womens-history-on-pinterest/

Pacifica Radio Archives: American Women Making History and Culture, 1963-1982:
https://womenmakinghistoryblog.wordpress.com/

Schlesinger Library, Harvard University: Capturing Women's Voices on the Web:
http://wax.lib.harvard.edu/collections/collection.do?coll=61&lang=eng