HIST 32 - Women & U.S. Culture: Symposium

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Welcome to the Women & U.S. Culture Library Research Guide! 

This Guide for HISTORY 32 will provide information and resources necessary to complete the assignments. Refer to Dr Bengiveno's syllabus for complete instructions on the assignment. Any questions should be direct to Dr Bengiveno during class or her office hours.

 

 

SYMPOSIUMS  

This semester each of you will research ONE of the following topics under the Bold categories. There will be four components to this assignment:  Annotation Assignment, Abstract, Annotated Bibliography, and PowerPoint Presentation. See Module Assignment in Canvas for due dates.  NO WIKIPEDIA SOURCES ALLOWED. You should stay away from encyclopedias since they are not academic sources. ​There will be a Library Orientation for the Symposium. 

 

The following topics will be used: 

WORKING WOMEN IN THE 20^TH & 21^ST CENTURIES  

The following are suggested areas to investigate.  You are not restricted to the topics on this list. 

Wage Inequity

Supreme Court Justices

U.S. Senators and/or Representatives

Women and Unions/leadership

Political Correspondents

Teachers/Professors

Service Industry workers  

 

Immigrant Women's Lives

The following are suggested areas to investigate.  You are not restricted to these topics. 

Undocumented workers

Impact of ICE

​Mothers & Daughters

Asylum Seekers

Education 

Refugees

Assimilation
 

WOMEN AT WAR (Any WWII topic must be cleared with professor) 

The following are suggested areas to investigate.  You are not restricted to these topics. 

Codebreakers

Lesbians in the military

Women’s workplace/sexual harassment in the military

Women in Vietnam

Nurses during wartime

Women in Iraq and/or Afghanistan

Code Pink

Sexual violence in the military 
 

EDUCATED WOMEN 

The following are suggested areas to investigate.  You are not restricted to these topics. 

Women in Law/Med school

Women in Higher Education

Women’s Colleges

Marian Wright Edelman

Drew Gilpin Faust

The Society of Women Engineers

Katherine Johnson

 
 

100 points possible. See Module for point breakdown. Your annotated bibliography must include a minimum of ten sources; a variety of sources including books, journal articles, and no more than five internet sources (of the ten).  The annotations should be several sentences to a paragraph in length per bibliographic citation.  Interviews are also acceptable as sources when appropriate.