1. What was new information for you about women and the Great Depression in the United States? Provide examples and quotations and share this new understanding about women's lives (may be about a specific group). 2. List three essential understandings (different from above) about...
1. We, as students of women's history, can't seem to escape "Domesticity." How does domesticity play a role in shaping women's experiences, women's concerns, or women's responses as they grappled with labor conditions, racism, urban crises and more? Consider one of our topics this...
We can often see how media influences culture if we look at specific examples from the past. This week, you will look at how the media from the 1960s and 1970s had an impact on the culture that followed. This was a period in history...
Civil War 1. Discuss one type of work that women performed during and in the immediate aftermath of the Civil War and include evidence from the reading in your answer. Reconstruction and Civil War 4. How do we make sense of racism and anti-immigrant...
This assignment requires a minimum of 700 words (but not limited to), including supporting details from the documents and sources in which you analyze and discuss the material that has been assigned by addressing the following question: In your opinion, were the...
How would you respond to someone who presents you with the arguments proposed by Social Darwinists, the stories written by Horatio Alger, OR Carnegie's Gospel of Wealth (choose ONLY ONE of these), to explain the success or failures of individuals in...
Women and the American Revolution Discussion 1. Discuss one continuity or difference you see in women's lives in the Revolutionary Era versus the Colonial Era. Specify which women/group of women you are discussing. 3. Choose a term or woman from this list below...
1. What appeal do you think Catholicism offer Maria Rouensa based on her particular life experiences and situations? 4. What did you learn about doing women's history from the Midwife's Tale documentary? WhyWereAttractedtoCatholicism.docx.htmlMidwifesTaleinfo.docx ,Midwifes tale- Martha...
Chose one aspect of the Great Depression, not a comprehensive review. Ex: single moms in the Great Depression, farmers in the Great Depression, Suicide rates/cases in the Great Depression, federal programs In the Great Depression, sports, society, police brutality, race and gender, fashion, police violence..etc...
Throughout the 1950s African Americans in northern cities grew increasingly active in opposing discrimination and in protesting white resistance to black progress in housing, education, and employment. Martin Luther King and others embarked on a campaign of nonviolent resistance and demonstrations, which spread to the...