Women and Social Movements in the United States Since 1600

Meet the Editors

Current Editor

Patricia Schechter began the editorial position of Women and Social Movements in the United States Since 1600 in 2024. A professor of history at Portland State University, she has contributed to the resource through digital exhibits, oral history work, and scholarship in U.S. women’s history.

Past Editors

Judy Tzu-Chun Wu and Rebecca Jo Plant oversaw the resource from 2020 to 2024. Earlier, Kathryn Kish Sklar and Thomas Dublin edited the database/journal from 2004 through Spring 2019, helping establish its document-project model and long-running publication program.

Included Content / Coverage

Peer-reviewed scholarship, primary documents, books, images, essays, book and website reviews, teaching tools, document projects, publications by state and local commissions on the status of women, writings of Black women suffragists, proceedings of women’s anti-slavery conventions, proceedings of women’s rights conventions, Woman’s Christian Temperance Union convention proceedings, League of Women Voters publications, state reports on gender bias in the courts, Notable American Women: A Biographical Dictionary, dictionary of social movements, chronology of U.S. women’s history.

Key Themes Include

U.S. women’s history, women’s activism, social movements, suffrage, abolition, feminism, political reform, gender bias, citizenship, teaching and learning.