Womans History Questions

Week Five Readings HIST 474

Topic/Title Citation

Ware, AWH: AVSI, Ch 2, pp. 30-35 Susan Ware, American Women’s History: A Very Short Introduction,. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015) https://search-ebscohost-com.proxyli b.csueastbay.edu/login.aspx?direct=t rue&db=e091sww&AN=921074&site =ehost-live&scope=site. (start by signing in to the Library website)

Overview: This article From Time/Zocalo Public Square, presents brief essays on diverse groups of women in the West. Women and the Myth of the American West

Zocalo Public Square, multiple authors, “Women and the Myth of the American West,” Time, January 11th, 2015. https://time.com/3662361/wo men-american-west/. Accessed September 21, 2023.

Not all women’s westward movement was voluntary. The Cherokee experienced forced removal. Please read the following brief accounts in Women and the Trail of Tears - THE REMEDIAL HERSTORY PROJECT

Please navigate to third tab, “primary sources,” then click on these three sources at a minimum. (They start four sources down)!

● WAHNENAUHI: RECOLLECTION OF THE TRAIL OF TEARS

● RACHEL DODGE: RECOLLECTION OF THE TRAIL OF TEARS

● MARY HILL: THE MIGRATION TO THE WEST OF THE MUSKOGEE (this loaded slowly for me but it did load)

And American Indian Stories, Chapters 1-4.

Zitkala-Sa [aka Gertrude Simmons Bonnin], American Indian Stories (1876-1938). Washington: Hayworth Publishing House, 1921.https://digital.library.upe nn.edu/women/zitkala-sa/stori es/stories.html. Accessed

.Sep 21, 2023

Enslavement is not often considered part of the story of the West. African-Americans’ history in the West is overlooked. Harriet Robinson Scott’s story highlights African-American women in US history and the history of the American West. “A Law Scholar Discovers Mrs Dred Scott” https://www.chronicle.com/article/a-law-scholar-discovers-mrs- dred-scott/

Paulette Walker Campbell, “A Law Scholar Discovers Mrs. Dred Scott.” The Chronicle of Higher Education 45, no. 16 (1998): A14–.

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Week Five Readings HIST 474

By the way, a reparations bill was defeated in the California State Legislature this year. Legislators will reintroduce it. It’s not specific to gender/women’s history. But I wonder if the gendered experiences of enslavement for women have been considered.

https://www-chronicle-com.pr oxylib.csueastbay.edu/article/ a-law-scholar-discovers-mrs-d red-scott/. Accessed September 20, 202.4

Watch: The Gold Rush:

Watch: 5 minutes of “Speck of the Future” from minutes 43:10-48:19. (Segments: Prostitution, Rare and Enterprising Women) Signing in to the library first may help access.

Luzena Stanley Wilson, '49er; memories recalled years later for her daughter Correnah Wilson Wright. https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services//service/gdc/calbk/089.pdf, pp 3-13 ( stop reading at end of chapt. 3)

Speck of the Future : the West, a Film by Stephen Ives. New York, N.Y: Films Media Group, 1996. Accessed September 21, 2023. Luzena Stanley Wilson, “Luzena Stanley Wilson, '49er; memories recalled years later for her daughter,” Library of Congress. https://tile.loc.gov/storage-se rvices//service/gdc/calbk/089 .pdf. Accessed September 21, 2023.

Frontier Teachers:

“Usually the Teacher Has Nothing to say…: Frontier Education and the One Room SchoolHouse”

(Think back to earlier reading and discussions about the role of educated women as teachers in a new nation.)

Christopher Czjaca, “Usually the Teacher Has Nothing to say…: Frontier Education and the One Room School House” Homestead History, Frontier House https://www.thirteen.org/wnet/f rontierhouse/frontierlife/essay 10.html .Sep 21, 2023