Women in the Late-19th Century

Lectures in History

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History, Politics, News

4.1 • 696 Ratings

🗓️ 27 September 2020

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Professor Heather Cox Richardson talked about the new roles women assumed in the workforce and in politics during the late-19th century. She described the gains women made in fields such as nursing, teaching, and social work. She also spoke about the growth of political organizations run by women that focused on issues such as Prohibition and women’s suffrage. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:58.3	This is American History TV's Lectures in History podcast.
1:05.7	This week, a class on the new roles U.S. women assumed in the workforce and politics during the late 19th century,
1:09.0	taught by Boston College professor Heather Cox Richardson.
1:12.2	This episode was recorded in 2016.
1:19.0	Let's go ahead and start. As you know, the theme of this course comes from the idea that the Civil War dramatically changes American history because what it really does is it destroys everything
1:24.3	everybody believed about the relationship between America and the American government.
1:28.3	So once the war is over, and this is actually a really good day to talk about this,
1:31.3	because of course today is the anniversary of the firing on Fort Sumter,
1:35.3	everybody has different ideas about what the nation is supposed to become,
1:40.3	and we've really gone through a lot of that with the idea that African American men
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