This History U course examines the struggles and successes of American women fighting for equality in American politics, life, and culture, from the movement for suffrage to campaigns for fair wages.
Course Instructor: Professor Linda Gordon, New York University
Eligibility: High school students
Image Source: George W. Harris and Martha Ewing, “Woman Suffrage Pickets at White House,” 1917 (Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division 2016867199)
History U
Free for high school students
This History U course examines the struggles and successes of American women fighting for equality in American politics, life, and culture, from the movement for suffrage to campaigns for fair wages. We will explore grassroots political activism, landmark court decisions, significant achievements in the arts, and the intersection of work on behalf of women’s rights in the United States with other galvanizing movements for equality at home and abroad. The course also considers the evolving role of gender in mediating political discourse and social relations in the United States and studies important distinctions in activism and opportunity shaped by race, geography, economics, and marriage.
The views expressed in this course are those of Dr. Linda Gordon.
Kory Loyola explains what you will learn in this course.
Linda Gordon, Professor Emerita of History, New York University
Linda Gordon is professor emerita of history at New York University. Her research focuses on the social and political history of the United States in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, though her list of published books covers a wide range of topics. Since 1976 Professor Gordon has written on social turmoil in sixteenth-century Ukraine, family violence, single mothers and welfare, the Arizona orphan abduction, Dorothea Lange, the history of contraception in the United States, and the Ku Klux Klan. In 2018, Gordon wrote a biography of Inge Morath, a traveler, artist, and one of the first women to join the Magnum Agency.
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