HIS 165 — Eleanor Roosevelt and Her World
Quarter: Summer
Instructor(s): Margo Horn
Date(s): Jun 26—Jul 24
Class Recording Available: No
Class Meeting Day: Wednesdays
Grade Restriction: No letter grade
Class Meeting Time: 7:00—8:50 pm (PT)
Tuition: $360
Refund Deadline: Jun 28
Unit(s): 1
Status: Registration opens May 20, 8:30 am (PT)
Quarter: Summer
Day: Wednesdays
Duration: 5 weeks
Time: 7:00—8:50 pm (PT)
Date(s): Jun 26—Jul 24
Unit(s): 1
Tuition: $360
Refund Deadline: Jun 28
Instructor(s): Margo Horn
Grade Restriction: No letter grade
Recording Available: No
Status: Registration opens May 20, 8:30 am (PT)
Eleanor Roosevelt’s life illuminates major events in 20th-century US history. Born in 1884, she watched America endure World War I, the Great Depression, World War II, and eventually, the Cold War. These were transformational moments for the nation, and within these moments, Eleanor Roosevelt was herself a transformational figure. She redefined the role of First Lady and was a tireless advocate for social welfare and human rights. For example, she actively supported Marian Anderson’s singing at the Lincoln Memorial in 1939, after the Daughters of the American Revolution refused to let Anderson, an African American, sing before an integrated audience at Constitution Hall. She also helped win passage of the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948. In this course, we will take a close look at Eleanor Roosevelt’s personal life, her influence on FDR’s presidency, the friends and intellectuals she is associated with, and her many achievements, while keeping an eye on the watershed events that redefined our nation. Doris Kearns Goodwin’s Pulitzer Prize–winning book, No Ordinary Time, will be the central text for the course.
MARGO HORN
Former Lecturer, Department of History, Stanford
Margo Horn specializes in the history of women, the history of family, and the social history of medicine and psychiatry. Her research concerns the history of women physicians in the US, the history of single women in 20th-century America, and the history of women and mental illness in America during the same period. She is the author of Before It's Too Late: The Child Guidance Movement in the United States, 1922–1945. She received an MA and a PhD from Tufts. Textbooks for this course:
(Required) Doris Kearns Goodwin , No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II (ISBN 978-0684804484 )