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American Women: A Gateway to the Library of Congress Resources for the Study of Women's History and Culture in the United States

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/awhhtml/index.html

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American Women is an online version of the print publication American Women: A Library of Congress Guide for the Study of Women’s History and Culture in the United States and is a gateway to the Library of Congress’s resources that are related to women. “The guide has been redesigned for online use, with added illustrations and links to existing digitized material located throughout the Library of Congress Web site. These materials are supplemented by a small number of newly digitized items that provide a sample of the many relevant types of materials available in Library of Congress holdings. The Research Guide also provides practical search tips, detailed collection summaries of the Library’s voluminous multiformat holdings, and links to fuller catalog record descriptions and digitized material.”

The Research Guide is divided into specific collections within the LOC and introduces the researcher to the types of materials to be found there associated with women:

  • General Collections
  • Serial and Government Publications
  • Law Library
  • Rare Book and Special Collections
  • Manuscripts
  • Prints and Photographs
  • Topical Essays
  • Geography and Maps
  • Music
  • Recorded Sound
  • Moving Images
  • American Folklife Center
  • Area Studies Collections

In addition to the Research Guide, the “home page also provides information regarding preparing to do on-site research at the Library of Congress; tips on searching for women’s history resources in the Library’s catalogs; guidance on finding materials relating to women within the Library’s American Memory collections; and helpful orientations to women’s history sources in the Library’s online exhibitions and audiovisual Web broadcasts of lectures, readings, and symposia.”