History 246 Reading Guide
“Women’s History”—“Women History”: Introduction
Thinking Historically, and Thinking about the Historical Past
- "What’s past is prologue." William Shakespeare, The Tempest (c.1610-11)
- "The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there." L.P. Hartley, The Go-Between (1953)
- "A way of seeing is also a way of not seeing." Kenneth Burke, Permanence and Change (1935)
- "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1793)
Short readings
- Conversation between Miss Tilney and Miss Morland from Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey (1803). LINK
- Victor Konrad, "Seasonal Round of Activities, 1850s, Tobias Walker Farm, Kennebunk, Maine," The Harraseeket Project, Freeport, Maine (1984). LINK
Course Texts:
- Laurel Ulrich, Good Wives: Image and Reality in the Lives of Women in Northern New England, 1650-1750 (1982; reprinted 1991).
- Patricia Cline Cohen, The Murder of Helen Jewett: The Life and Death of a Prostitute in Nineteenth-century New York (1998).
- Jacqueline Jones, Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow: Black Women, Work and the Family from Slavery to the Present (2nd edition 2010; orig. pub. 1986).
- Anzia Yezierska, Bread Givers (1925; new edition 1999).