HIST 204: Women, Gender and American Society to 1870 (HC)

Sojourner Truth, circa 1870 (Wikimedia Commons, public domain)                                                     

Use the Tripod catalog for your home institution    This link opens in a new window  This link opens in a new window  to look for all books (print and digital) owned by your college as well as the print titles at the other two schools.  

The following searches are a sampling of possibilities.  To find materials on a topic, try doing a keyword search in the Tripod Catalog to find relevant materials and then use the subject headings assigned to those titles to find more books.  Note that all these searches are in the Books+Media channel.  In examples #1 and 4 below, using keywords (rather than subjects) will pick up results from chapter titles.

        (free OR slave* OR enslave* OR blacks) AND plantation [Keyword] AND (women* OR gender* OR sex*) AND history AND "united states" [Subject]       

       women southern states history  AND (blacks OR "african american*" OR  slave*) AND (white*) [Subject]     

        united states   Foreign public opinion, british AND "19th century"  [Subject]       

        "slave narratives" AND ("united states" OR american)  [Subject]      

**  Try opening a search above and replace one of the topics with your subject interest.

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