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Sarah McMahon, Fall 2009

History/GWS 248. Family and Community in American History, 1600-1900

History 332. Community in America, 1600-1900

Courses Previously Taught

History 12. Utopia: Intentional Communities in America, 1630-1997

History 231. Social History of Colonial America, 1607-1763

History 233. American Society in the New Nation, 1763-1840

History 246/GWS 251. Women in American History, 1600-1900

History/ES 247. Maine: A Community and Environmental History

History/GWS 249. A History of Women’s Voices in America