Week Six: “Women in the Late-19th Century,” Professor Heather Cox Richardson

Professor Heather Cox Richardson

This week we’re off to Boston College

We’ve taken the T’s Green Line out to BC for a lecture by Professor Heather Cox Richardson on the new roles that women assumed in the workforce and in politics during the late-19th century. She discusses the gains women made in fields such as nursing, teaching, and social work. She also delved into the growth of political organizations run by women that focused on issues such as Prohibition and women’s suffrage. This lecture comes from her course on America’s Reconstruction Era. 

We previously featured Professor Cox Richardson and her daily “Letters from an American” in Inspired Thoughts #13 and the Now and Then podcast she does in collaboration with Yale’s Professor Joanne Freeman in Inspired Thoughts #34

Her lecture is available at the button below.

Professor Cox Richardson’s lecture is one of many available from C-SPAN’s American History TV at the following link: https://www.c-span.org/series/?lecturesInHistory.

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