HIST 2066 - Women in America Since 1890

1. Why Women’s History?: Methods and the History of Women’s History
2. Race, Suffrage, and Citizenship in the Late Nineteenth-Century
3. Native, Latina, and Chinese Women in the American West
4. Wage Labor, Mass Migration, and the New Woman of the Industrial Age
5. Race for Empire: Women under Jim Crow and U.S. Imperialism
6. “Romantic Friends” and Queer Women at the Turn of the Century
7. Reformers, Radicalism, and Reactionaries: Women in the Progressive Era
8. The New Era: World War I, the Great Migration, and the Jazz Age
9. Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the Depression and World War II
10. Gender and Family Ideals after World War II: Myth and Reality
11. Women of Color and the Postwar Civil Rights Movements
12. The Rights Revolutions and Conservative Backlash in the Seventies and Eighties
13. Women, Medicine, and Disability in the Twentieth Century
14. Culture Wars: The Politics of Sex, Gender, and Identity since 1990

1. interpret the history of women in the United States by making connections between significant events, people, movements, and ideas in the past while using an intersectional framework.
2. use historical thinking to make connections between the history of women in the United States and the present.
3. apply the standards of historical evidence and credibility while using diverse sources.
4. formulate a historical argument.
5. explain how systems of hierarchy and sexual patriarchy have constrained and shaped the lives of women throughout U.S. history including into the present. 

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