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Research Sources
Cambridge Women's Heritage Project

Archives (note that some of the finding aids and biographies for specific individuals in the following archives can be obtained online)

The Academy of American Poets

Columbia University, Archive of Women in Theological Scholarship.

Cambridge Historical Commission biographical files

Harvard University, Houghton Library archives,

Longfellow House archives. Cambridge

Massachusetts Historical Society

Northeastern University Library, Special Collections

Radcliffe Institute, Schlesinger Library, manuscript/ archival collections

University of New Hampshire, Milne Library, Special Collections

University of California San Diego (UCSD), Mandeville Special Collections Library, Archive for New Poetry

University of Minnesota, College of Liberal Arts, Immigration History Research Center

University of Texas, Austin archival collections

Smithsonian, Archives of American Art

Online Resources (see also Specific Biographical Sources below)

The Academy of American Poets http://www.poets.org

Adbar website http://www.ethiopianwomen.org

Archive of Women in Theological Scholarship by Leslie Reyman: (October 2000) http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/img/assets

Cambridge Public Library: Penwomen of Cambridge Past: Biographies http://www.cambridgema.gov/cpl/about/penwomen.html

Columbia University, Archive of Women in Theological Scholarship. http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/burke/archives/awts/index.html

Famous Americans. http://www.famousamericans.net

Jewish Women’s Archive “Women who Dared” http://www.jwa.org/exhibits/wwd

Lesley University adjunct faculty site http://www.lesley.edu/gsass/cp_adjunct.html

Longfellow House archives. Cambridge http://www.longfellowfriends.org/longfellowhouse/archives.php

Massachusetts Historical Society http://www.masshist.org

Northeastern University Library, Special Collections http://www.lib.neu.edu/archives

Political Graveyard: Index to Politicians. http://politicalgraveyard.com/

Radcliffe Institute, Schlesinger Library, manuscript/ archival collections http://www.radcliffe.edu/schles/manuscript_archival.php

St. Lawrence University website, http://web.stlawu.edu

Smithsonian, Archives of American Art, finding aids http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/findingaids/

University of New Hampshire, Milne Library, Special Collections http://www.library.unh.edu/milne/

University of California San Diego (UCSD), Mandeville Special Collections Library, Archive for New Poetry.

University of Minnesota, College of Liberal Arts, Immigration History Research Center http://www.ihrc.umn.edu/

Wikipedia (online encyclopedia) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

Writer's Online: http://www.writersonline.co.uk/

Publications: Newspapers, Newsletters and Magazines

Boston Globe

Boston Evening Transcript (1911)

Cambridge Chronicle

Chronicle of Higher Education

Harvard Gazette

New York Times

Dance Magazine

MIT Tech Talk

Publications: Dictionaries and Encyclopedias

American Women: Fifteen Hundred Biographies. Frances E. Willard and Mary A. Livermore. (eds) New York; Chicago; Springfield, Ohio: Mast, Crowell & Kirkpatrick. 1897, 2 vols. (published originally as A Woman of the Century in 1893 and reprinted by Gordon Press, New York, 1975.)

American Women Writers: A critical reference guide from colonial times to the present. Lina Mainiero (ed). New York: Ungar, 1979-1994.

Appleton’s Cyclopedia of American Biography New York: Appleton, 1887-1889.

The Book of Women’s Firsts. Phyllis J. Read and Bernard L.Witlieb (eds.) New York: Random House, 1992.

Dictionary of American Biography New York, 1928-1936. 20 vols + supplements

Encyclopedia Americana, Grolier, 1995.

Encyclopedia Britannica, 15th edition 1985-2007.

Goss, Madeline. Modern Music-Makers: Contemporary American Composers. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1952.

Notable American Women (1609-1950. Edward T James, (ed.) Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1950. Vols. 1-3

Notable American Women: The Modern Period. Barbara Sicherman and Ilse Kantrov (eds). Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1980.

Notable American Women: Completing the Twentieth Century. Susan Ware (ed.) Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2005

The Oxford Companion to Women’s Writing in the United States. Cathy N. Davidson and Linda Wagner-Martin (eds) New York: Oxford University Press, 1995.

Paige, Lucius R. A History of Cambridge 1630 -1877 with a Genealogical Register. Boston: H.O. Houghton, 1877.

Warner, Carolyn. The Last Word: Treasury of Women’s Quotes. Prentice-Hall: Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1992.

Winthrop, Hannah. Historic Guide to Cambridge, Hannah Winthrop Chapter, N.S.D.A.R., 1907.

Women in Science: Biographical Dictionary of Women Scientists. Marilyn Ogilvie and Joy Harvey (eds). Routledge, 2000.

Specific Biographical Sources

Bull, Sara C. Ole Bull: A memoir. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1883.

Daniels, Cynthia R. Exposing Men: The Science and Politics of Male Reproduction. Oxford University Press, New York, 2006.

Dobash, R Emerson. Women, Violence, and Social Change. New York: Routledge, 1992.

Gruesser, John C. ed., The Unruly Voice: Rediscovering Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins. Urbana: U of Illinois P, 1996.

Hudspeth, Robert N. The Letters of Margaret Fuller Vol 1-V (1988)

Miller, Ellen, Ilse Heyman, Dorothy Dahl. The Window Shop. Diesel books, 2007.

NASA Office of Logic Design “About Margaret Hamilton. http://klabs.org/home_page/hamilton.htm

Ogilvie, Marilyn Bailey and Clifford J. Choquette A Dame full of Vim and Vigor. A Biography of Alice Middleton Boring: Biologist in China. Harwood Academic Publishers, 1998.

Palmer, Mary Towle. The Story of the Bee. Cambridge MA, Riverside Press, 1924.

Popkin, Ann. Bread and Roses, PhD dissertation, Brandeis University, 1978 (unpublished copy in Schlesinger Library files).

Roazen, Paul. Helene Deutsch, A Psychoanalyst's Life. Garden City, N.Y, 1985.

Sayers, Janet. Mothers of Psychoanalysis. New York: Norton, 1991.

Sicherman, Barbara. Alice Hamilton M.D.: A Life in Letters. Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 1984.

Stille, Alexander. Benevolence and Betrayal: Five Italian Jewish Families under Fascism. Summit Books, 1991.

Wolf, Alice site http://www.alicewolf.org/bio.htm

“The Women’s History Tour of Cambridge” (handout).

Women, Science and Technology: A Reader in Feminist Science Studies Wyer, Mary, ed. New York: Routledge, 2001.