The collection currently includes 116 document projects and archives with 4,700 documents and more than 160,000 pages of additional full-text documents, written by more than 2,450 primary authors. It also includes book, film, and website reviews, notes from the archives, and teaching tools.
The Women Writers Project, based at Northeastern University, focuses on early women's writing in English. Its full-text collection, Women Writers Online, includes transcriptions of texts from 1526 to 1850, featuring rare and inaccessible works.
Focusing on the evolution of feminism throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the archive provides materials on women's political activism, such as suffrage, birth control, pacifism, civil rights, and socialism, and on women's voices, from female-authored literature to women's periodicals. The library currently owns the first two of this four part collection: Issues and Identities and Voice and Vision.
A multi-disciplinary resource, with collections that cover a broad range of topics from the Middle Ages forward-from Witchcraft to World War II to twentieth-century political history. Particular strengths include U.S. foreign policy; U.S. civil rights; global affairs and colonial studies; and modern history.
