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Sarah Elbert

Professor Emerita
Ph.D., Cornell University
U.S. cultural and intellectual history, women's history, 19th and 20th centuries

Recent or current undergraduate courses:

• Nature, Culture and US History, 1830-1930
• Taming the Call of the Wild, 1900-2002
• Culture & Social Change, 1880-1920
• 19th c. U.S. History and Literature

Recent or current graduate courses:

• US Cultural History 1830-1930/Cultural Communities and National Identity
• U.S. Intellectual History, 1860-1930
• 19th c. U.S. Cultural & Intellectual History
• U.S. Cultural and Intellectual History, 1900-1960
• Readings in American Studies
• 19th c. U.S. History & Literature*

Books:

• The American Prejudice Against Color, edited with introduction, Northeastern University Press,2002.
• Louisa May Alcott on Race, Sex and Slavery, Northeastern University Press, 1998.
• Louisa May Alcott, Moods, edited and introduction by Sarah Elbert, Rutgers University Press, 1991.
• A Hunger for Home: Louisa May Alcott's Place in American Culture, Rutgers University Press, 1987.

Articles:

• "An Inter-Racial Romance: William G. Allen and Mary King," in The American Prejudice Against Color, History Workshop Journal, No. 48, forthcoming Spring 2002.
• "Louisa May Alcott's Work: A Story of Experience," The Alcott Encyclopedia, Glenwood Press, 1999.
• "Women and Farming: Changing Structure, Changing Roles," in Wava G. Haneg and Jane B. Knowles, eds., Women and Farming, Westview Press, 1988, pp. 245-265.
• "The Farmer Takes a Wife: Women in American Families," in Women, Households and the Current Economy, Benaria and Stimson eds., Rutgers University Press, 1988.
• "Amber Waves of Gain," in Groneman and Norton, eds. To Toil the Livelong Day, America's Women at Work, 1780-1980, Cornell University Press, 1987.
• "The Farm Needs Everyone," in Research in Rural Sociology and Development, Harry K. Schwarzweller, ed., JAI Press 1984.