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Project Background
In 1997, Kathryn Kish Sklar and Thomas Dublin, both historians of women at SUNY/ Binghamton, decided to make primary sources in U.S. women's history available on the World Wide Web. After choosing the organizing theme of "women's participation in American social movements," they developed courses to teach students how to mount the sources on the web in the form of individual historical projects. The website, <http://womhist.binghamton.edu>, now presents almost a thousand primary documents organized into over 40 historical projects.
In 2001, Sklar and Dublin invited women's history scholars from around the country to launch similar projects at their home institutions. Asked to be a part of this group, I have arranged to teach a course in Spring 2003 that allows SLU students to develop website projects based in local primary sources in women's history. St. Louis boasts a number of documentary and local newspaper collections that illustrate women and social movements, some available at SLU, others at UMSL and the Missouri Historical Society. What you see here are five projects currently "under construction" by Saint Louis University students working in local women's history sources.
--Dr. Elisabeth Perry
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