Week One

August 15-19

Introduction to course
Reading: Women’s Eyes (pp. xxv-xxxiii)
A Stage Set for Conflict: Native American v. European Ideologies
Reading: Women’s Eyes (pp. 2-14) VS (pp. 38-49)

Week Two

August 22-26

First Contact: Southern Settlement
Reading: Women’s Eyes (pp. 14-24) Docs (pp. 53-55, 63-64)
A City on a Hill: Northern Settlement and the Middle Colonies
Reading: Women’s Eyes (pp. 24-37) Docs (pp. 50-52, 55-63)

Week Three

August 29-September 2

Resistance and Rebellion
Reading: Women’s Eyes (pp. 70-87) VS (pp. 102-118) Docs (pp. 119-123)
 App (pp. A1-A3 The Declaration of Independence)
Womanhood in the Context of Nationhood
Reading: Women’s Eyes (pp. 87-101) Docs (pp. 124-130)

Week Four

September 5

No School-Labor Day

September 7-9

True Womanhood and Mill Girls
Reading: Women’s Eyes (136-154) VS (pp. 182-193) Docs (pp. 169-174)
The Pedestal and the Auction Block
Reading: Women’s Eyes (pp. 154-168) VS (pp. 194-197) Docs (pp. 175-181) Handout: Willie Lynch Speech

Week Five

September 12-16

Expanding Nation
Reading: Women’s Eyes (pp. 202-213) Docs (pp. 236-244)
Quiz #1 (after Expanding Nation lecture)
Antebellum Reforms
Reading: Women’s Eyes (pp. 213-222) Handouts: Temperance and Women in Abolition

Week Six

September 19-23

Antebellum Reforms (continued)
Seneca Falls and Beyond
Reading: Women’s Eyes (pp. 222-228) Docs (pp. 245-250)
App (pp. A18-A21 Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions)
Exam #1 (Friday, 23^rd)

Week Seven

September 26-30

 Due: Document Comparison Paper (Monday, 26^th)
The Civil War
Reading: Women’s Eyes (pp. 228-235) VS (pp. 251-263)
App (pp. A24-A25 Dred Scott v. Sandford)
Reconstruction
Reading: Women’s Eyes (pp. 270-283) Docs (pp. 306-310)
App (pp. A13-A14 Amendments XIII, XIV, XV; A25-26 Minor v. Happersett; Plessy v. Ferguson)

Week Eight

October 3-7

Consolidating the West
Reading: Women’s Eyes (pp. 340-351) Docs (pp. 373-378)
Mass Immigration
Reading: Women’s Eyes (pp. 352-361) VS (pp. 386-392)

Week Nine

October 10-14

Century’s End
Reading: Women’s Eyes (pp. 361-372) Docs (pp.379-385) VS (pp. 317-326, 393-399)
Quiz #2 (Wednesday, 12^th)
Labor Reform
Reading: Women’s Eyes (pp. 283-291, 406-415) Docs (pp. 311-316)
App (pp. A26-A28 Muller v. Oregon; Adkins v. Children’s Hospital)

Week Ten

October 17-21

Public Housekeeping
Reading: Women’s Eyes ((pp.299-300 (WCTU)), 415-437) VS (pp. 393-399)World War I
Reading: Women’s Eyes (pp. 437-444) Docs (pp. 466-473) VS (pp.454-459)

Week Eleven

October 24-28

“Well done, sister suffragists!”
Reading: Women’s Eyes (pp. 444-446) Docs (pp. 460-465) VS (pp. 449-453) App (pp. A15 Amendment XIX)
Exam #2 (Wednesday, 26^th)
Flappers and all that Jazz
Reading: Women’s Eyes (pp. 480-496) Docs (pp. 519-522) VS (pp. 534-539) App (pp. A15 Amendment XVIII)

Week Twelve

October 31-November 4

The Great Depression and a New Deal
Reading: Women’s Eyes (pp. 497-501) Docs (pp. 522-533) VS (pp. 539-547)
App (pp. A16 Amendment XXI)