History/GWS 249 Reading Guide
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)
Suggested overview texts about United States Women’s History (on reserve in the library):
- Cott, Nancy F., ed. No Small Courage: A History of Women in the United States (2000).
- Evans, Sarah, Born for Liberty: A History of Women in America (1989; 1997).
- Norton, Mary Beth, Major Problems in American Women’s History (1996).
- Riley, Glenda, Inventing the American Woman: An Inclusive History (1995).
- Ruiz, Vicki, et. al., eds., Unequal Sisters: A Multicultural Reader in US Women’s History (2000).