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Information: Social historians attempt to understand everyday human experience, and in particular to construct narratives of the lower socioeconomic classes and other groups not represented in traditional literary or governing circles--the subject of political, intell This page was last updated on August 26th, 2008
USDA Historical Photos
United States Department of Agriculture collection of about 400 photographs which provides a portrait of rural and small town American life mainly in the late 1930s and early 1940s. http://www.usda.gov/oc/photo/histfeat.htm
Victorian Social History: An Overview
Brief essays on a wide range of topics, including public health, conditions of life and labor, economic history, education, and race, class and gender issues. http://landow.stg.brown.edu/victorian/history/sochistov.html
Sex In History
Text of a 1954 history of sexuality and relationships by Gordon Rattray Taylor critical of their historical repression. http://www.ourcivilisation.com/smartboard/shop/taylorgr/sxnhst/
World History Archives
A collection of documents for teaching and learning about world history from a working class perspective. http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/
Gender and Medieval Studies Group
Organizes international, interdisciplinary conferences aimed at furthering the study of medieval gender and sexuality. Information about next conference: 'Seeing Gender', 4-6 January 2002, King's College, London. http://www.medievalgender.org.uk/
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Information: Social historians attempt to understand everyday human experience, and in particular to construct narratives of the lower socioeconomic classes and other groups not represented in traditional literary or governing circles--the subject of political, intell
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