Primary Sources

1862 Morrill Act
(http://www.oardc.ohio-state.edu/www/morrill.html)

Read through the 1862 Morrill Act. It established land grants colleges in rural areas, enabling many women to earn low-cost college degrees.

American Association of University Women
(http://womhist.binghamton.edu/aauw/doclist.htm)

Link to 17 original documents that discuss how the American Association of University Women contributed to women's education in the early 20th-century.

Minnesota Women's Christian Temperance Movement 1878-1917
(http://womhist.binghamton.edu/wctu/doclist.htm)

Find links to four original documents marking the changes in the reform agenda of the Minnesota Women's Christian Temperance Movement 1878-1917.

WCTU
(http://womhist.binghamton.edu/wctu2/doclist.htm)

White women dominated the WCTU. Find links to 23 documents regarding African-American women and the WCTU.

Hull-House
(http://www.swarthmore.edu/Library/peace/Exhibits/jane.addams/hull-house.htm)

View photographs of Hull-House.

International Congress of Women
(http://womhist.binghamton.edu/hague/doclist.htm)

Read 17 documents written by women in 1915 as they traveled around warring European capitals trying to make peace after the International Congress of Women.

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