Women’s History
History of Women: An extensive collection of links from the University of Washington.
Discovering American Women’s History Online: Searchable database of primary documents.
Women’s History at the Library of Congress: Our tax dollars at work.
Women Working, 1800-1930: 500,000 digitized pages and images documenting women's role in the United States economy.
Do History: A site that shows you how to piece together the past from the fragments that have
survived using as a case study Maine midwife Martha Ballard.
Maine Women’s Writers Collection: Foremost collection of writings by and about Maine women.
Local and Family History
These sites provide a good starting point for local and family history research.
Maine Historical Society
Maine Memory Network: Searchable collection of digitized images and documents from across the state.
Maine State Library
Maine State Archives
Family Search: Free genealogy search site provided by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.
Ancestry.com: Genealogy search site. Some free records, some by subscription.
Cyndi’s List of Genealogy Resources: Extensive list of online resources for genealogy, family history, and local history research.
Communal Societies
Communal Studies Association: A professional society dedicated to the understanding and study of intentional, contemporary, historic and utopian communities.
The Annotated Bibliography of Selected Sources for the Study of American Communal History: provides a good starting point for information on several historic communal groups.
Sabbathday Lake Shaker Society: The last active Shaker community.
