grad student writing resources
from the university of michigan, my alma mater. really good list of writing tips, tools, and references. included: how to read a book; how to write a literature review; and, how to give an academic talk. i need this stuff. but then again, i'm a total nerd who enjoys curling up with the chicago manual of style, 14th edition just for fun.
history links from the voice of the shuttle
this is one of the longest lists of history links i have ever encountered. click, go get some lunch, then come back and see if it's done loading yet. tons of stuff to explore.
what i have read since 1974
this person has read a lot of books. only, no comments about any of them. tsk.
sanborn maps
ok, this is really cool. go to this site, click on the 'sanborn maps' link, and plug in the username & password info they give you (username in uppercase, password in lowercase). then you'll be able to look at all the sanborn fire insurance maps for california from about 1880 to the present. see what your street looked like at the turn of the century. these maps were created for fire insurance purposes, so they listed all kinds of info about building structure and the commerical occupants and all that kind of stuff. i used these for a project i was working on, and it really gave me a feel for what the south of market neighborhood in san francisco was like in 1895. bustling.
historical images from the roland marchand collection, uc davis
quite a selection of photos, drawings, paintings, maps, posters, and clippings from US history. handily organized by subject category. tres cool.
professional criminals
page from "professional criminals of america" by inspector thomas byrnes, chief of new york detective force, 1886. "ellen clegg, alias 'ellen lee,' shoplifter and pickpocket; mary hollbrok, alias 'molly hoey,' pickpocket; margaret brown, alias 'old mother hubbard,' pickpocket and satchel Worker." from the marchand collection.
union maids!
ok, i found it. these reviews don't really convey the wonderfulness of it, but trust me, it's a great movie -- if you ever see it playing on pbs, tape it. the director, jim klein, also did seeing red and growing up female.
chicago women's liberation union archive
was looking for info online about this great documentary i saw in class tonight about CIO activist women in chicago during the 1930s. it's called "union maid" and i can't seem to find anything on it. but i did find this site, about 1970s chicago, and it's pretty cool. plenty of documents & images from the 2nd wave feminist movement.
labadie collection
ok, with all this labor link surfing, i would be remiss if i didn't include a link to the good old labadie collection at the university of michigan. i wish i would have taken better advantage of this while i was a student there. maybe i'll pay it a visit around xmastime, though. check out the pictures & the online exhibit. i didn't even know who labadie was before i looked up this site.
afscme women's labor links
afscme has such a nice website. more good links here.
readings on women & labor in the US
i'm going to be writing a historiographical paper on women and labor in the US in a few weeks, so i was digging around for good reading lists on the web. this one is pretty amazing. how am i gonna pick what to read, though? so much good stuff.
