In this essay, Edwards surveys recent scholarship in these burgeoning fields, and illustrates effectively how many previous assumptions, especially pertaining to women's history, have been overturned.
Rebecca Edwards is Eloise Ellery Professor of History at Vassar College. She is the author of Angels in the Machinery: Gender in American Party Politics from the Civil War to the Progressive Era (1997) and New Spirits: Americans in the Gilded Age,1865-1905 (2nd ed., 2010), and co-author, with James Henretta and Robert Self, of America's History (7th ed., 2011).
