Resources 2009–2010
Retreat III: April 2, 2010—Monroe County History Center
Dr. Wendy Gamber: Women’s Work in the Nineteenth Century
Introduction/Overview (PDF)
Readings:
- A Treatise on Domestic Economy, For the Use of Young Ladies at Home and at School (PDF)
- The Young Wife; Or, Duties of Woman in the Marriage Relation (PDF)
Retreat III: April 3, 2010—Monroe County History Center
Dr. Kirsten Sword: Making a Free State: Slavery, Servitude and the Mary Clark Story
Overview Outline and Resources
Eunice Trotter and Ethel McCane: Mary Clark’s Story: First Person Interpretation
Complete Session
Dramatization
Wylie House—Tour
Bridget Edwards—Overview and Preparation for Wylie House tour, including introduction of Ms. Breckenridge (Wylie house domestic)
Historian Faculty
Wendy Gamber—Dr. Gamber is Professor in the IU Department of History. Her research centers on the social and cultural history of the nineteenth-century United States, with particular attention to relationships between gender and economy. Dr. Gamber is the author of The Female Economy (1997) and, most recently, The Boardinghouse in Nineteenth-Century America. She is currently at work on a book-length microhistory that explores the social, cultural, and political consequences of a murder in late-nineteenth-century Indianapolis.
Kirsten Sword—Dr. Sword is Assistant Professor in the Department of History and Adjust Assistant Professor in the Department of Gender Studies, Indiana University. She is a historian of early America in the Atlantic age of revolutions, with particular interests in gender, race and the law. Dr. Sword is currently working on two book projects, one of which is Wives not Slaves: Marriage, Runaways, and the Invention of the Modern Order. The second project tells the stories of six forgotten people whose lives intersected in the freedom suit that spurred the founding of the world's first antislavery society.