Learning Outcomes

Learning Outcomes

After completing these activities, students will be able to work with oral history interviews and:

  1. build historical knowledge about women immigrants to the United States in the mid-20th century.
  2. evaluate oral history as evidence and describe how various factors shape the presentation of the self in interviews.
  3. characterize immigrant women’s choices and why they made them.
  4. revise commonplace narratives when new evidence is presented.