This course will introduce students to the main currents in U.S. women's history in four broad chronological units: Traditional America, 1600-1820; Industrializing America-Part I, 1820-1880; Industrializing America-Part II, 1880-1920; and Modern America, 1920-present. Within this framework, the course will explore such topics as: work, communities and public life; gender, families and sexuality; race and African-American experiences; and religion, reform and political culture. The course will also familiarize students with the ongoing theoretical debates within women's history.