Course Description

Instructors:  Jill Parks 

This course, celebrating Women's History Month, will look at the bravery and accomplishments of four female spies.

Elizabeth Van Lew – She led a spy network of over a dozen White and African American Men and Women in the Civil War.
Mata Hari – Considered to be the most famous spy in the 20th century.
Mildred Harnock – The only American Civilian to be executed under direct order of Adolf Hitler. She could have four different identities in one day.
Virginia Hall – One of the most important American spies people have never heard of. Having only one leg, this American woman was among the first British spies sent into Nazi-occupied France in 1941.