Barbara Lindemann's specialties at SBCC have been the history of American Women and the History of the Immigrant Experience, both courses that she inaugurated. In addition to teaching U.S. survey courses, she has been part of the Honors Program since its beginning, teaching an interdisciplinary course in the 1980s- American Institutions: Methods of Social Scientists. More recently she taught honors sections of the Immigrant Experience and of the U.S. Survey since 1865. Her research centers on the history of U.S. women.

While co-director (with Professor Ron Adler of the Communication Department) of the SBCC in Cambridge (England) program in spring, 1997, she taught the history of Great Britain to 1615. Subsequently she was co-director of the SBCC in D.C. program along with Professor Manou Eskandari of the Political Science Department. This trip took her back to her roots in southern Pennsylvania and Baltimore where many members of her family still live.