Feminist Public Intellectuals Project: Includes “Ask a Feminist” (interviews with leading feminists), “Short Takes” (brief discussions about books that matter), and “Feminist Frictions” (essays about ideas and concepts that have generated a great deal of debate)
Intellectual History as a Field
H-Ideas, Intellectual History Discussion Group in H-Net
Society for U.S. Intellectual History Blog
Peter Gordon, “What is intellectual history?”
Intellectual History, General Reference Materials
Richard Wightman Fox and James T. Kloppenberg, eds., A Companion to American Thought (Cambridge: Blackwell, 1995).
John Garraty and Mark C. Carnes, eds., American National Biography, 24 vols. (New York: Oxford University Press, under the auspices of the American Council of Learned Societies, 1999).
David A. Hollinger and Charles Capper, eds., The American Intellectual Tradition, 4rd ed., vol. II: 1865 to the Present (New York: Oxford University Press, 2001).
Intellectual History Newsletter, published 1979-2002
Modern Intellectual History, published since 2004
Women’s History General Reference Materials
Discovering American Women’s History Online
Notable American Women: A Biographical Dictionary
Women and Democracy: Politics, Law, and Social Policy
Ellen Fitzpatrick, Endless Crusade: Women Social Scientists and Progressive Reform (New York: Oxford University Press, 1990).
Estelle B. Freedman, Maternal Justice: Miriam Van Waters and the Female Reform Tradition, 1887-1974 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996).
Linda Gordon, ed., Women, the State, and Welfare (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1990).
Linda K. Kerber, No Constitutional Right to Be Ladies: Women and the Obligations of Citizenship (New York: Hill and Wang, 1998).
Molly Ladd-Taylor, Mother-Work: Women, Child Welfare, and the State, 1890-1930 (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1994).
Robyn Muncy, Creating a Female Dominion in American Reform, 1890-1935 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1991).
Dorothy Roberts, Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty (New York: Pantheon Books, 1997).
Theda Skocpol, Protecting Soldiers and Mothers: the Political Origins of Social Policy in the United States (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1992).
Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1775-1930
The History of Modern Feminism
Rosalyn Baxandall and Linda Gordon, eds., Dear Sisters: Dispatches from the Women’s Liberation Movement (New York: Basic Books, 2000).
Mari Jo Buhle, Feminism and Its Discontents: A Century of Struggle with Psychoanalysis (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1998).
Nancy F. Cott, The Grounding of Modern Feminism (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1987).
Alice Echols, Daring to Be Bad: Radical Feminism in America, 1967-1975 (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota, 1989).
Sara Evans, Personal Politics: The Roots of Women’s Liberation in the Civil Rights Movement & the New Left (New York: Random House, 1979).
Sara Evans, Tidal Wave: How Women Changed America at Century’s End (New York: Free Press, 2003).
Susan Faludi, Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women (New York: Anchor Books, 1991).
Daniel Horowitz, Betty Friedan and the Making of the Feminine Mystique: The American Left, the Cold War, and Modern Feminism (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1998).
Ruth Rosen, The World Split Open: How the Modern Women’s Movement Changed America (New York: Viking, 2000).
Archives, Papers, and Information About Selected Intellectuals on the Internet
Hannah Arendt: The Library of Congress has digitized its Arendt Papers.
Pearl Buck, general biography
Pearl Buck, role in child welfare and child adoption
Barbara McClintock: The National Library of Medicine has digitized McClintock’s Papers.
Materials on American Women and Education
Joyce Antler, Lucy Sprague Mitchell: The Making of a Modern Woman (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1987).
Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz, The Power and Passion of M. Carey Thomas (New York, Knopf, 1994).
Essay on Charlotte Perkins Gilman and the Feminization of Education
Website on Mary Lion, founder of Mt. Holyoke