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Expert: Steve Anderson, MA - 9/30/2009


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What was the education, after the bible encouraged the higher rate, of Puritan Women?

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I'm not certain that the Bible DID encourage the higher education of women.  But assuming it did the only real education Puritan education were generally exposed to was in the medical or teaching profession.  Midwifery--the practice of helping deliver babies and care for the newly-boprn babies--was common, but this knowledge came about only through experience.  There were virtually NO recognized schools for medical training of any kind--for men or women.  As for teaching, this too came about purly through experience.  Women were never allowed to attend higher level education until the early 1800s and if a woman seemed to have more education than another it was entirely self-acquired through personal study.

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Any area of American History, EXCEPT military history or economic history, these are not strong points of mine. Areas of particular expertise include the assassination of John F. Kennedy, 19th century women's history, 1950s-1960s popular culture, 1920s, Colonial America, Jacksonian Era, migration west, immigration, ethnic history, presidential decisions, treaties, tariffs, causes and results of wars, and entertainment history since World War II (television, movies, and music.)

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Twenty-five years of teaching Advanced Placement American History, Bachelor's and Master's Degrees in American History, thirty post-graduate hours in American History

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Member of Phi Alpha Theta--The History Honor Society (November 2001), California Teacher's Association

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American History Teaching Credential, Recognized by the University of Chicago as an Outstanding Educator

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