Cott, Nancy F.
Person
Biography
Occupation: Director .
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Living U.S. Women's History Oral History Project oral histories
Collection
Identifier: SSC-MS-00423
Abstract
The collection includes fifty-one oral histories of scholars of U.S. women's history. The interviews document the emergence and development of women's history as a discipline from 1960 to 2000, as well as the interviewees' professional and personal lives, their choices, and their intellectual commitments.
Dates of Materials:
2000-2005
Mary Ritter Beard papers
Collection
Identifier: SSC-MS-00013
Abstract
Historian, archivist, and women's rights activist. The Mary Ritter Beard papers primarily document the organization and dissolution of the World Center for Women's Archives, which Beard founded, as well as the founding of both the Sophia Smith Collection at Smith College and the Schlesinger Library at Radcliffe College, both women's history archives. Materials include correspondence, writings, photographs, and books. Correspondents include Dorothy Brush; Ethel Weed; prominent Japanese...
Dates of Materials:
1915 - 1977
Nancy Cott interviewed by Melanie Gustafson, 2000-11-07
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Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The Living U.S. Women's History Oral History Project collection consists of 17.25 linear feet of audiotapes, videotapes and transcripts. There are fifty-one individual oral histories plus group discussions conducted between 2000 and 2005. The project documents the emergence and development of U.S. women's history between 1960 and 2000 by creating an archive that explores a new group of scholars who entered the historical profession after 1960. It explores these historians' professional and...
Dates of Materials:
2000-11-07
- Smith College Special Collections
- Neilson Library, 7 Neilson Drive
- Northampton, Massachusetts, 01063
- specialcollections@smith.edu
- 413-585-2970
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