Your first paper assignment will ask you to read and analyze Hilda Polacheck’s autobiography, I Came a Stranger, in the context of our course themes and the broader historical events and issues we will cover through Week 5 of the semester.

1. What does Hilda Polacheck’s life reveal about the roles of women in America during the late 19th and early 20th Century? Consider her observations about the social, economic, and/or political responsibilities that women take on during her lifetime. Is this a period defined more by a sense of possibility or by ongoing constraints?