HIS 375 I A - WI:U.S. Women's History(Foundation F3a)

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This course examines the history of American women from the seventeenth century to the 1990s by analyzing the changing images and roles women have held in the family, workplace, politics, and society. Attention is paid not only to the common experiences of women, but also to the impact of race, ethnicity, and class on women’s lives. No prior knowledge of women’s history is necessary or expected. 
 
The format of the class will consist of lectures and discussions. Lectures and the textbook will provide students with conceptual frameworks and facts for understanding U. S. women’s history. Students will also be called on to read a variety of primary sources and secondary sources written by prominent American and women’s historians and to analyze these texts in weekly discussions.

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Zotero collects all your research in a single, searchable interface. You can add PDFs, images, audio and video files, snapshots of web pages, and really anything else. Zotero automatically indexes the full-text content of your library, enabling you to find exactly what you're looking for with just a few keystrokes.
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Some of the databases that you might find helpful for secondary sources are America History and Life, Contemporary Women's Issues, JSTOR, Project Muse, and Wiley Online Library. If you would like to add additional primary sources to your paper look at Georgia's Virtual Vault, Women and Social Movements in the US, New York Times Historical, NewsBank, Ancestry, Reader's Guide, and Reader's Guide Retrospective.  Berry also has a subscription to the Chicago Manual of Style if you can't find the citation information you need in Turabian.
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If you are having trouble finding enough secondary sources in the research databases, you can trying searching in Google Books. What is good about this source is that it lets you search within the 'text' of many sources. You will need to be careful, however, that any source you find here is scholarly, nonfiction, and trust-worthy.
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If you are writing about a subject from between the 1920s-1990s, you might have a difficult time finding newspaper sources in the standard databases.  Google's newspaper archive, however, covers much of this time frame and looks at a host of regional and local papers.
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An excerpt of A Murder at Rosamund's Gate, a historical mystery and the first book in the Lucy Campion series by Susanna Calkins.

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