HIST 2010 — - Women in North American History, 1600-1900
This is a survey course in the history of American women in North America that begins with pre-contact societies of native Americans and concludes with the Progressive Era at the turn of the twentieth century. Students will examine the experiences of native American women, European colonial women, African slave women and their mistresses, middle-class women of the Northeast, pioneering women, working girls, female reformers and radicals, women in the Civil War, and in Progressivism. Lecture: 3 hours