Updated and expanded topics reflect new scholarship and current events. The authors have enriched the book’s discussions of the Roanoke colony; sexuality and the family in colonial times; Confederate women in the Civil War; women artists of the New Deal; environmentalism; and lesbian activism. The final chapter includes a fresh look at women in contemporary media and the advancements made and challenges faced by women in the twenty-first century.
New primary sources offer fresh material for analysis and discussion. New visual source essays focus on how women contributed to and were depicted at the Chicago World’s Fair in 1893; artists’ interpretations of the New Woman; and Dorothea Lange’s haunting images of farm women during the Great Depression. New document essays highlight the experiences of a woman in a California gold mining camp; opportunities for women on the international stage during World War I; and women in 21st-century politics. Twenty-five percent new images within the narrative provide additional sources for analysis.
New questions for analysis that accompany the brief in-text documents, now called “Reading into the Past,” focus student reading and encourage connections to the broader context of the narrative.
Expanded new media support. From the book companion Website instructors can now access PowerPoint slideshows of images from the visual source essays, in color when available. Self-tests allow students to quiz themselves online about their reading and email the results to their instructor. A new DVD, “Bedford Video Clips for U.S. Women’s History,” offers classroom-ready video segments to supplement the text.