Western Association of Women Historians

Online resources

Web sites

Feminist Geek - features a concise annotated listing of useful online gender and women's history resources, information about teaching and learning with technology, digital community building, copyright, and more.

International Museum of Women - interesting "interactive, multi-lingual online exhibit designed to reach a global audience."

Library of Congress - Digital Collections and Programs

Web 2.0 technologies

A whole new world - the second generation of web-based services that emphasize online collaboration and sharing among users.

Zotero - The Next Generation Research Tool
"...easy-to-use yet powerful research tool that helps you gather, organize, and analyze sources (citations, full texts, web pages, images, and other objects), and lets you share the results of your research in a variety of ways. An extension to the popular open-source web browser Firefox, Zotero includes the best parts of older reference manager software (like EndNote)—the ability to store author, title, and publication fields and to export that information as formatted references—and the best parts of modern software and web applications..." Read more...

For more information, see: Roy Rosenzweig, Historical Note-Taking in the Digital Age. OAH Newsletter (35: August 2007).

Media sharing service - one example of women's history on YouTube....

Women throughout history [uploaded to YouTube 9/20/2006]
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Wikis - add your knowledge - edit the net!

Wiki - "a web site that allows visitors to add, remove, edit and change content, typically without the need for registration. It also allows for linking among any number of pages. This ease of interaction and operation makes a wiki an effective tool for mass collaborative authoring."

 

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updated June 5, 2008

 

The Western Association of Women Historians was founded in 1969 to promote the interests of women historians both in academic settings and in the field of history generally.

Drawing scholars from the Western states, the WAWH is the largest of the regional women's historical associations in the U.S.

The WAWH encourages the participation of academic historians and independent scholars, and welcomes literary scholars and art, theater, and film specialists.