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"Gypsy Davy" by Margaret MacArthur

"Gypsy Davy" by Margaret MacArthur from the album "Folksongs of Vermont" (FW05314)

Born in 1928 in Chicago, Illinois, Margaret MacArthur spent her childhood moving around the western United States. Her first contact with folk music came in 1933, when her father began work at an Arizona timber company with displaced cowboys and folk singers who had collected songs throughout their travels. In 1948 MacArthur moved to Vermont, where she gathered the songs presented here from churches, friends, and broadsides found near her farm. When speaking of her death, Margaret MacArthur’s granddaughter Robin wrote, "On her deathbed she was sick with morphine, most of her memory gone, but she could still remember the lyrics to any ballad we asked her to sing. This music had etched itself into her soul; song and landscape and self had twined into a fabric that was lasting, resounding, and full of grace."

 

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Celebrate Women's History Month with Alexander Street!

March is Women's History Month in the United States, and in celebration we're offering free access to Women and Social Movements, International, our newest history collection! But access ends March 31st, so register now.

For more information about Women and Social Movements, International, or to request extended trial access, email [email protected].

Manuscript Women's Letters and Diaries updated

We've just added a new batch of material to Manuscript Women's Letters and Diaries, the online collection created in partnership with the American Antiquarian Society! This update consists of 12,743 pages from three collections, including:

• Jane Briggs Smith Fiske Papers, 1806-1923, offering insight into the daily life of a farmer's wife and record her many daily activities, as well as news of her family and the local community.
• Diaries of Catherine Dean Flint from the Flint Family Papers, 1858-1868, offering details on the life of a middle-class merchant's daughter and politician's wife.
• Lizzie A. Wilson Goodenough Diaries, 1865-1875 and Lizzie Cora Goodenough Diaries, 1901 and 1903: the diaries of a working-class mother and daughter.

This update brings Manuscript Women's Letters and Diaries to over 69,000 pages of material from 26 collections!

Manuscript Women's Letters and Diaries is available to libraries and educational institutions worldwide. For more information, including free trial and pricing requests, please email [email protected].

Women and Social Movements, International is now live!

Our newest online collection, Women and Social Movements, International—1840 to Present, is now live. With more than 150,000 pages, drawn from over 300 sources, Women and Social Movements, International is a landmark collection that provides an unparalleled look at the ways that women's social movements shaped the events and attitudes that have defined modern life.

Women's international organizations have focused on issues related to peace, poverty, child labor, literacy, disease prevention, and global inequality. By exploring traditions of women's activism, we can reach a full understanding of modern society and history. Women and Social Movements, International provides an unparalleled survey of how women's struggles against gendered inequalities promoted their engagement with other issues over time and across cultures. Faced with resistance from national political parties and organizations in the 19th and 20th centuries, women created international organizations where they pioneered policies that were adopted by national and international governing bodies. For example:

• President Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points built on resolutions adopted by the Women's Peace Conference at The Hague in 1915.
• Madeleine Z. Doty, correspondent for Good Housekeeping in Moscow during the Russian Revolution, shaped the policies of the League of Nations in the 1920s.
• Minerva Bernardino of the Dominican Republic helped launch the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights in 1948.

Women and Social Movements, International brings a fresh understanding of the world we inherited from these women and their organizations with journals, manuscripts, letters, photographs, diaries, and ephemera; reports from different national committees (which facilitate comparison and multiple perspectives); and links to twenty thousand additional pages of valuable primary resources on the Web. Much of this material is still in copyright and previously-unpublished, and the collection is backed by a global editorial board of 130 leading scholars.

To request a free trial or price quote for your library, email [email protected].

Manuscript Women's Letters and Diaries updated

We've just added a new batch of material to Manuscript Women's Letters and Diaries, the online collection created in partnership with the American Antiquarian Society! Along with an update that brings the Allen Johnson collection from 25,000 to nearly 49,000 pages, we've added 5,166 pages from four new collections, including:

• Ruth Henshaw Bascom Papers, 1789-1846
• Burr Family Papers, 1805-1836
• Anna Quincy Thaxter Cushing Papers, 1816-1918
• Waldo Family Papers, 1788-1830

Manuscript Women's Letters and Diaries is available to libraries and educational institutions worldwide. For more information, including free trial and pricing requests, please email [email protected].

Women and Social Movements updated

The latest issue of Women and Social Movements in the U.S. is now live. Subscribers will find a wide range of new materials—document projects, document archives, book reviews, full-text sources, and News from the Archives. If you subscribe to the Scholar's Edition, you'll also find a new secondary essay relating to the publications of State and Local Commissions on the Status of Women.

The new document projects include:

• an exploration of the contributions of African American women to the civil rights movement in the twentieth century, by Professor Gail Murray
• a compelling view of the work of Catholic laywomen during, and just after, World War I to provide social services for immigrants in East St. Louis, IL, by Jeanne Petit

In the new document archive, Marcia Gallo offers a selection of issues from The Ladder, published by the Daughters of Bilitis between 1956 and 1972. In her introductory essay, Gallo discusses the founding and the evolution of the magazine and its place in the emerging lesbian and second-wave feminist movements in these years. The archive itself includes more than a thousand pages chosen to illuminate the changing approaches taken by the journal’s editors over time.

Subscribers to Women and Social Movements in the U.S. - Basic Edition can access all of the new material at http://wasm.alexanderstreet.com.

Subscribers to Women and Social Movements in the U.S. - Scholar's Edition can access all of the new material, including the secondary essay, at http://wass.alexanderstreet.com.

For more information, and to request a free trial or price quote for your institution, please contact [email protected].

Also, keep your eyes peeled for Women and Social Movments, International.

New content added to literature collections

We've updated several of our literature collections with new titles from authors around the world. All new content is available to subscribers now in the following online collections:

• Black Women Writers - Over 4,600 pages of new content is available from authors such as Phyllis Wheatley, Sojourner Truth, Makeda Silvera, Tananarive Due, and others.
• Caribbean Literature - Close to 5,000 pages of new content has been added from authors hailing from Barbados, Martinique, Guyana, Jamaica, Trinidad, and Cuba.
• Latin American Women Writers - Over 6,500 pages of new material has been added from Chile, Uruguay, Brazil, Nicaragua, Mexico, Argentina, and other countries in Latin America. Included are several volumes of the periodicals A Mensageira (Brasil), Vide Femenina (Uruguay), and Semanario de las Señoritas Mejicanes (Mexico).
• South and Southeast Asian Literature - Over 1,600 pages of new content from authors such as  Manoj Das (India), Suniti Namjoshi (India), and Siew-Yue Killingley (Malaysia).

The above collections, as well as 4 others, are available and cross-searchable through Alexander Street Literature. For more information, or to request a free trial or price quote for any of our literature collections, please contact [email protected].

New content added to Manuscript Women's Letters and Diaries

Manuscript Women's Letters and Diaries, the online collection created in partnership with the American Antiquarian Society, has just been updated with 197 pages of original manuscripts.

The Allen-Johnson collection has been updated considerably, and two new collections of manuscripts are now available. Subscribing libraries will now see the Ellen Tucker Emerson Letters (1863-1865) and Sara Osborn Letters (1743-1799).

Manuscript Women's Letters and Diaries is available to libraries and educational institutions worldwide. For more information, including free trial and pricing requests, please email [email protected].

New MARC record sets available

New MARC record sets from Alexander Street are available, free of charge, at http://marc.alexanderstreet.com. Newly added sets include:

• Women and Social Movements in the US: Basic Edition, supplement 1 — The first supplemental set for the Basic Edition, this file contains 91 records representing 98 books and pamphlets.
• Women and Social Movements in the US: Scholar's Edition, supplement 2 — This file includes 91 records representing 98 books and pamphlets in the Scholar's Edition.
• Classical Scores Library, supplement 2 — This file contains 1,699 records representing 1,700 scores.
• Images of America, supplement 1 — This first supplemental set includes 465 records representing 465 books.
• Opera in Video, supplement 1 — This set contains 105 records representing 106 works.

All MARC record sets listed above are in MARC8 format. In addition to these supplemental sets, we've also released a title/URL list for Contemporary World Music customers outside of the United States and Canada. For more information and an updated release schedule, visit http://marc.alexanderstreet.com.

New release of Social Theory

Last month we updated Social Theory with new materials from a host of important social theorists. The collection is nearing completion and now contains over 145,000 pages. Newly added works from prominent theorists include:

• The Perfect Crime by Jean Baudrillard
• The Authoritarian Personality by Theodor Adorno
• Language and Symbolic Power by Pierre Bourdieu
• Art as a Social System by Niklas Luhmann
• The Twilight of the Idols by Friedrich Nietzsche
• Stigma by Erving Goffman
• Postmodernity and its Discontents by Zygmunt Bauman
• One-Dimensional Man by Herbert Marcuse
• Macro History: Essays In the Sociology of the Long Run by Randall Collins

Newly added works from women theorists include:

• Resident Alien: Feminist Cultural Criticism by Janet Wolff
• Property, Women and Politics: Subject Or Objects by Donna Dickenson
• A Rational Position on Suffrage: At the Request of the New York Times Charlotte Perkins Gilman
• The Everyday World as Problematic: a Feminist Sociology by Dorothy Smith
• Situating the Self: Gender, Community and Postmodernism in Contemporary Ethics by Seyla Benhabib

Finally, the remaining 18 volumes of The Collected Works of Marx and Engels have been added along with several titles from Polity Press.

Social Theory is available to libraries worldwide via annual subscription or outright purchase. For more information and to request a free trial or price quote for your library, please email [email protected].