Nancy Cott was the first person to teach a course on U.S. women's history at Wheaton College, Clark University, and Wellesley College, in the early 1970s. She then taught for twenty-five years at Yale University, before moving to the history department at Harvard University, where she is also the faculty director of the Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America. Cott has published many books and articles and has lectured widely on campuses in the U.S. and abroad.

Lecture topics:

• Marriage and Citizenship
• What is Gender History?
• The American History of Marriage
• Revisiting the 1920s Generation

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