History 286: History of American Women

The College of Staten Island of The City University of New York
Fall 1996
Professor Catherine Lavender
lavender@postbox.csi.cuny.edu


About the Course

Course Syllabus, including links to sites related to course assignments

How to Write an Essay

First Midterm Questions

Second Midterm Questions

About Sara Evans, Born For Liberty: A History of Women in America

About Working Girl

About Silent Spring and Rachel Carson

About Anita Hill

About the Autobiography Assignment


Resources Available

CSI Computer Lab and Library Hours for Fall Semester, 1996.

Events of interest to women's historians on the CSI campus and locally

Information about studying culture and history in New York City

Women's History Review Online

Sources illustrating the "Cult of Domesticity," like Godey's Lady's Book.

Information about woman suffrage from the Archives of The National American Woman's Suffrage Association Collection, the History of the Women's Suffrage Movement, or Women Get the Vote.

Several resources for womanist studies, including The Institute for African-American Studies at the University of Georgia's Womanist Homepage, And Still We Rise, and a profile of Alice Walker, Womanist Writer.

Information about the New Woman, including the etext of Ruth Bordin, Alice Freeman Palmer: The Evolution of a New Woman.


Other Sites of Interest

A site devoted to revealing library resources on Women's History, including lists of bibliographies of autobiographies.

University of Virginia List of Links

Crossroads Site @ Georgetown University

American Memory Project of the Library of Congress


Professor Catherine Lavender, Department of History, College of Staten Island, The City University of New York, 2800 Victory Boulevard, Staten Island, NY 10314, lavender@postbox.csi.cuny.edu

Last modified: Friday, 2 May 1997