Research Guides: Reproductive Rights & Justice: An American History (HIST 4011): Additional Databases & Websites

Additional Databases & Websites

Making of Modern Law: American Civil Liberties Union Papers This link opens in a new window
This papers collection spans the majority of the twentieth century, from 1912 to 1990. Documents include: bills, briefs, correspondence, court documents, legal case files, memorandums, minutes, newspaper clippings, reports, scrapbooks, telegrams. Also includes Part II: Southern Regional Office collection, comprised of documents from ACLU's Southern Regional Office and it's battle to enforce the 1964 Civil Rights Act in thirteen Southern states.
Making of Modern Law: Legal Treatises 1800 - 1926 This link opens in a new window
A full-text digital image archive of 22,000 legal treatises on U.S. and British law published from 1800 through 1926. Browse feature (by author or title) and full-text search engine provided.

Series 3: Sexuality, Sex Education, and Reproductive Rights, Part A: Family Planning Oral History Project (ProQuest History Vault)
Series 3 from the Women's Studies Manuscript Collections from The Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe College (ProQuest History Vault) contains transcripts of interviews with twenty-four pioneers of "family planning," These interviews "provide some general clues to the nature of the birth control reform struggle in the period between the peaks of militance in the 1915-1920 period and the revival in the 1960s."
Series 3: Sexuality, Sex Education, and Reproductive Rights, Part B: The Papers of Mary Ware Dennett and the Voluntary Parenthood League (ProQuest History Vault
"Mary Ware Dennett (1872-1947) may be best known for her work in birth control and sex education, but she was also a suffragist, a pacifist, and an artisan. This collection documents her activities on behalf of various social and political reform movements, focusing primarily on her involvement in the women's suffrage, birth control, and peace movements."
Center for Reporductive Rights
The Center for Reproductive Rights is a leading source of information on reproductive rights laws, policies, and issues.
Guttmacher Institute
"A leading research and policy organization committed to advancing sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) worldwide."
KFF
"The independent source for health policy research, polling, and news." Includes a "Women's Health Policy" section with an "Abortion in the U.S. Dashboard."
Pew Research Center - Research Topics
State Court Report (Brennan Center for Justice)
"State Court Report (a project of the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law) is a nonpartisan news source, resource, and commentary hub covering state constitutional developments in high courts across the 50 states." Users can filter content in various ways including by issues such as, reproductive rights, education, environment and by many others.The site also includes a State Case Database where users can find recent high court decisions and briefs and filter the results by state and or issue