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- Course name
- American Women's History
- Institution
- Rochester Institute of Technology
- Instructor
- Tamar Carroll
- Subject
- U.S. Women's History
- Course dates
- 2015-08-25 – 2015-12-15
- Approximate number of student editors
- 40
This course surveys women’s history in the United States from the colonial period to the present. We move chronologically and thematically, focusing on the diversity of women’s experiences across race and class as well as the construction of dominant gender norms. This course will introduce students to a range of research methods and historical interpretations through examination of different types of primary sources and contrasting scholarly (secondary) texts. Areas of focus include Native American women, pre- and post-contact with Europeans; Puritan New England and the Salem witch trials; African American women, slavery, and the plantation household; industrialization and domesticity; women’s involvement in reform movements including racial equality and women’s rights; women, work and family structures; and feminism.