Women and the National Experience: Sources in Women's History, Volume 1 to 1877 - Softcover

Women and the National Experience, 3/e provides students with thought-provoking primary sources. Combining classic and unusual sources, this anthology explores the private voices and public lives of women throughout U.S. history, and also lets students experience what historians really do and how history is written.

A graduate of Smith College, Ellen Skinner received an MA from Columbia University and a PhD from NYU. She chaired the History Department at Pace University's Westchester campus from 1987 to 2006. Her teaching career spanned four decades and in 2008 she was appointed Professor Emerita. In both her teaching and writing she strives to make women's history accessible to students and relevant to their lives. Now in its third edition, Women and the National Experience first was published in 1995. Professor Skinner continues to teach women's history online and to search the archives for women's lost voices. Her current research focuses on women's human rights as well as the connections between women's history and the environment.