Radcliffe College's Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America has awarded grants to four graduate students and four postdoctoral researchers for projects utilizing the library's holdings during the 1996-97 academic year. The funding for the grants comes from an endowed fund given in memory of Mary Lizzie Saunders Clapp.

The four recipients of dissertation grants and their topics are:

Lissa Bell, University of California, Berkeley, "Women's Movements, National Politics, and Legal Reform in the United States and France, 1970-1990"; Kirsten Delegard, Duke University, "The Spider Web of the Right: American Women and Conservative Politics"; Corinne Field, Columbia University, "Women's Rights and the Politics of Aging, 1848-1939"; and Debra Michals, New York University, "Beyond Pin Money: The Rise of Women's Small Business Ownership, 1945-1980."

The four recipients of Radcliffe Research Support Grants and their topics are:

Timothy Messer-Kruse, University of Toledo, "The Yankee International: Marxism and the American Reform Tradition"; Leslie Reagan, University of Illinois, "Abortion Activists as Public Health Promoters"; Ingrid Winther Scobie, Texas Woman's University, "Congressional Women in Postwar American Politics, 1945-1990"; and Abigail Van Slyck, University of Arizona, "Around the Campfire: A Social and Architectural History of Children's Summer Camps in the United States, 1890-1960."

The Mary Lizzie Saunders Clapp Fund was established by Roger Clapp in memory of his mother, a student at Radcliffe College in the 1880s, when it was known as the "Harvard Annex." The endowed fund supports dissertation writers and scholars who do research using the holdings of the Schlesinger Library. The next application deadline for these programs is Feb. 15, 1997.

The Schlesinger Library contains holdings of books, manuscripts, periodicals, photographs, ephemera, oral histories, and audiovisual materials documenting the social history of women in the United States, primarily during the 19th and 20th centuries.