HIST 4972W - 19th Century Social History

History topics considered social history:

• Urban History, Suburban History, Rural History
• History of gender (how masculinity, femininity, other gender identities were expressed/socially constructed and enforced)
• History of racial and ethnic categories
• History of Children/Childhood, Adolescence, Aging
• History of Health, Illness, Medicine, Drugs, Disability
•  Labor History, History of Slavery, History of Professions
• Consumer History, History of (everyday) Technology
• History of Migration
• History of Social and Religious Movements
• History that tries to document "lost voices"
• History of Popular Culture (i.e., of magazines, religious revival meetings, sports/recreatation, social clubs)