HIST-225 Women in American History: Colonial Era To 1880
An in-depth study of the lives and experiences of American women from the early seventeenth century to 1880. This course examines three major cultures native, African and European as they met and mixed in colonial America with particular attention to women's experience in this cultural mixing. Focus will be on wealthy merchant families, slave holding planter families, indentured servants, slaves, factory workers, and immigrants and will include women's relationships with husbands, children, and other women.