Coeducation Research Guide

Books:

Breaking out : VMI and the Coming of Women by Laura Fairchild Brodie (2000)

Tough as Nails: One Woman's Journey Through West Point by Gail O'Sullivan Dwyer (2009)

Porcelain on Steel: Women of West Point's Long Gray Line by Donna McAleer Janda (2002)

Marching in Step: Masculinity, Citizenship, and The Citadel in Post-World War II America by Alexander Macaulay (2011)

In the Company of Men: A Woman at The Citadel by Nancy Mace (2001)

In Glory's Shadow: The Citadel, Shannon Faulkner, and a Changing America by Catherine Manegold (2001)

Women in the Barracks: The VMI Case and Equal Rights by Philippa Strum (2002)

Project Athena:

Undertaken from 1975, 1980, Project Athena was one of the nation's first studies on women integration within all-male institutions, the result of a joint Military Academy-Army Research Institute effort. The West Point library offers access to Project Athena documents through their website here.

Websites:

https://www.vmi.edu/ -The official website for the Virginia Military Institute (VMI).

https://marybaldwin.edu/vwil/ - The official website for the Virginia Women's Institute for Leadership, created in 1993 as an all-female alternative to VMI's official Corps of Cadets.

https://www.vmi.edu/archives/ - The official website for the Virginia Military Institute's Archives.

https://westpoint.edu- The official website for West Point. After Congress authorized the admission of women to the federal service academies in 1975, West Point admitted its first 119 female cadets in 1976.

https://usma.libguides.com/special-collections-archives/home- The official website for the West Point Library, with instructions on accessing archival materials. 

http://digital-library.usma.edu/digital/collection/p16919coll15/search- Site for West Point's collection on its female cadets.