The first book for the survey course to combine narrative and documents in a comprehensive volume. Unlike earlier books for the course -- either narratives or readers -- Through Women's Eyes offers fresh, substantive sources that reinforce and extend the historical synthesis. Each chapter is organized into three closely integrated sections: narrative, documentary essays, and visual essays. By combining narrative history with textual and visual evidence, the book explicitly models for students how historians work, how the questions they ask shape the history they write, and how these questions change over time. Plentiful cross-references, Questions for Consideration, and document headnotes underscore the connections between the narrative and essays while fostering students' skills in source analysis.
Ellen Carol DuBois and Lynn Dumenil bring their command of the scholarship and their extensive experience in teaching the U.S. survey and women's history and in writing texts for undergraduates to the creation of this path-breaking textbook for the American women's history course.