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Adding Gender to American Urban History

^* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: lbehm{at}worcester.edu.

	Abstract

Urban history can be merged with other history subfields to create intriguing amalgamations that work well as the subject for college classes. In this article, the author explores the intellectual journey that led her to combine urban history and women’s history, both in her own research and in her college classroom. The intricacies of the class "Gender and the City," are explored, including reading assignments, a courses exercise in mental mapping, and class participation in a community oral history project. Oral history proves to be an extremely malleable assignment, even when rigorously following the Oral History Association guidelines, and the methodology befits many kinds of urban history courses.

First published on October 20, 2009
Journal of Urban History 2009, doi:10.1177/0096144209349884


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