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Prof. Andrea Foroughi
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My love of history began as a young girl reading Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Little House books, a biography of Abigail Adams, and Louisa May Alcott’s spunky heroines. My main research interests as a historian developed in part from these female-centered books and some of the historical issues raised in them: female and male gender roles;women’s rights; and interactions between American Indians and whites. I have studied a Minnesota couple’s Civil War correspondence and what it reveals about gender during the national conflict; examined how manuscript and printed maps represent competing American Indian and European land claims leading up to the Seven Years War; and analyzed the gendered content and symbols in political cartoons of Abraham Lincoln. As with my scholarship, the courses I teach reflect my early interests. I offer American women’s history, colonial through the present with a separate course on the history of women’s rights and citizenship; American Indian history and a comparative North American frontiers course; the Civil War; and “Hands-On” History, using archival materials and interning at a local museum |
Phone: 518.388.7109
Fax: 518.388.6422
Email: forougha@union.edu
Office: Women’s Studies Lounge
Reamer Campus Center 302
