This course explores the theme of women and social change through two Reacting to the Past historical role-playing games. Both games examine how individuals’ gender, race, class, political and moral beliefs influenced their decisions during the turn of the 20th century. The first game is set in Paterson, New Jersey in 1913 during a general strike to achieve better working conditions for workers—both men and women—in the silk industry. Manufacturers, labor leaders, and townspeople must decide whom to support in the silk capitol of the USA. The second game takes place in New York City’s bohemian section in 1913. Artists, suffragists, and labor leaders debate the kind of social change that will most benefit women: is it the transformation of family and marriage; better working conditions; racial equality; the right to vote? The course concludes with a research project in which students will choose to explore their own question about women and social change in the past or present.