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Women’s History in the United States

TextBook

It is rare that I use a textbook to teach History. But Dubois and Dumenil have forwarded a collection of primary documents in Through Women’s Eyes that work to cover a sixteen week semester. All the documents - primary and secondary - hereby listed come from this textbook and the associated page number as to where they can be found.

Schedule

WEEK 1, Introduction to the Course

  • Interpret “I Scrubs” photo

  • Interpret "The Trappan'd Maiden: or, The Distressed Damsel"

WEEK 2, COLONIAL ECONOMICS PART 1

Primary Documents:

  • Virginia Statutes, “Laws of Virginia” (1643), 86-7

  • Mrs. Agatha Stubbings, “Prenuptial Document with Ralph Wormley” (1645), 83-4

  • Elizabeth Sprigs’ letter "To Mr. John Sprigs White Smith" (1756), 79

  • Hannah Griffitts, "The Female Patriots, Address'd to the Daughters of Liberty in America" (1768), 104-5

 Secondaries via Textbook:

 

Activities for Week 2

  • Discerning Evidence Assignment Due

WEEK 3, COLONIAL ECONOMICS PART 2

Primary Documents:

  • Elizabeth Lucas Pinckney’s letter “To Miss Bartlet” (1740), pg 78

  • Elizabeth Lucas Pinckney’s letter “To a Friend” (1742), pg 78

  • South Carolina Gazette (Oct 22, 1744), pg 80

  • South Carolina Gazette (Dec 23, 1745), pg 80

  • Boston Gazette (Apr 28, 1755), pg 80

  • Boston Gazette (Jun 20, 1735), pg 80

 Secondaries via Textbook:

 

Activities for Week 3 –

  • Quoting Assignment Due.

WEEK 4, RELIGION, THE LAW, AND WOMEN IN COLONIAL AMERICA

  • Massachusetts Bay Colony Court Records, “The Trial of Anne Hutchinson” (1637), pg 64-5

  • Archives of Maryland, “Michael Baisey’s Wife” (1654), pg 81-2

  • Archives of Maryland, the case of “Judith Catchpole” (1656), pg 83

  • Plymouth Colony Archives, Elizabeth Howland’s last Will & Testament (1686), pg 84-6

  • Virginia Statutes, “Laws of Virginia” (1662), pg. 87

  • Jane Fenn Hoskens, “Quaker Preacher” (1771), pg 68-9 

Secondaries via Textbook:  

Activities for Week 4 -

  • Connections Paper #1 Due in Class, 1st Peer Review

WEEK 5, Sep 17 – MORALITY AND RELIGION IN THE UNITED STATES (1815-1917)

Primary Documents:

  • Maria Stewart, “On Religion and Morality” (1831), 236-7

  • Catherine Beecher, "The Peculiar Responsibilities of the American Woman" (1841), 158-9.

  • Anthony and Stanton, “Call for a Meeting of the Loyal Women of the Nation” (1863), 264.

  • Susan B. Anthony, “Letter to Stanton: Lincoln's Assassination, Johnson as President” (1865), 263.

  • Lugenia Burns Hope, “The Neighborhood Union: Atlanta Georgia” (1908), 442-3.

  • Mary Beard, "Municipal House Keeping" (1915), 417.

  • Nannie Burroughs, "Black Women and the Suffrage" (1915), 447.

Secondaries via Textbook:

  • “Christian Motherhood,” 156-160.

  • “Crossing Political Boundaries: Abolitionism”, 233-8

  • “Women’s Rights Partnership: Stanton and Anthony 1850s & 1860s, 258.

  • “The Female Dominion: Public Housekeeping”, 414-8.

  • “Black Women and Progressive-Era Reform”, 442.

  • “Black Women’s Club Life”, 442.

Activities for the Week:

  • Connections Paper #2 Due in Class, Peer Review

WEEK 6 – SLAVERY AND CONTINUED RACISM IN THE UNITED STATES (1776-1865)

Primary Documents:

  • Susan B. Anthony, "Make the Slave's Case Our Own" (1859), 261-2.

  • William and Ellen Craft, "Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom" (1860), 194-8.

  • Elizabeth Cady Stanton, "To the American Anti-Slavery Society" (1860), 262.

  • Mary Boykin Chesnut, "Slavery a Curse to Any Land" (1861), 181.

  • Harriet Jacobs, "Trials of Girlhood" (1861), 182-3.

 Secondaries via Textbook:

  • “Women and Slavery”, 173-87.

  • “Two Slave Love Stories”, 193-4.

Activities for the Week

  • Connections Paper #3 Due in Class, Peer Review

WEEK 7 – CONTINUED RACISM POSTBELLUM (1865-1918)

  • Ida B. Wells, "Crusade for Justice" (1895), 315-8.

  • McCoy & Anon, "African American Women Write about the Great Migration" (1917), 438-9.

  • Ida B. Wells, “The East St. Louis Massacre: The Greatest Outrage of the Century” (1917), 444-5.

  • City Colored Women's Club of Augusta, GA, “"Resolution on Lynching" (1918), 446.

 Secondaries via Textbook:

  • “Women and Slavery”, 173-87.

  • “Two Slave Love Stories”, 193-4.

  • “The Great Migration”, 436-7.

Activities for the Week

  • Connections Paper #4 Due in Class, Peer Review

WEEK 8 – POVERTY & GROWING CLASS CONSCIOUSNESS (1850-1914)

Primary Documents:

  • Louise Smith Clappe, "The Shirley Letters from California Mines (1851-1852), 253-7.

  • William W. Sanger "The History of Prostitution: Its Extent, Causes, and Effects throughout the World" (1858), 189-192.

  • Lenora Barry, "Women in the Knights of Labor" (1888), 301.

  • Vorst Sisters, "Being the Experiences of Two Ladies as Factory Girls" (1910), 320-4.

  • Jane Addams, “Twenty Years at Hull House” (1910)

  • Inez Milholland, "The Changing Home" (1913), 464-6.

Secondaries via Textbook:

  • “Dame Shirley Letters: A Woman’s Gold Rush”, 252-3

  • “Prostitution in New York City”. 188-9

  • “Female Wage Labor and the Triumph of Industrial Capitalism”, 294-302.

  • “The Woman Who Toils”, 319-320.

  • “Jane Addams: Twenty Years at Hull House”, 381-2.

  • “The Feminist Program”, 428-9.

  • “Modernizing Womanhood”, 463.

 Activities for the Week

Connections Paper #5 Due in Class, Peer Review