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Pbs Learning Media: Women's History: Activity Pack | History Detectives

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This is a collection of lesson plans and activities to learn about the history vital but often little-known contributions of women to American history. They are based on History Detectives episodes that examine artifacts of how women...
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Library of Congress

Loc: Webcast: History of Household Technology

For Students 9th - 10th
What was domestic work like during the mid-nineteenth century? References from the Library of Congress help us explore what a homemaker's life was like in the 1800s and how it changed with the invention of washing machines, stoves,...
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Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History

Gilder Lehrman Institute: Pursuit of Equity: Women, Men, Economic Citizenship

For Students 9th - 10th
"In Pursuit of Equity: Women, Men, and the Quest for Economic Citizenship in 20th-Century America," is delivered by Alice Kessler-Harris. A detail heavy presentation differentiating between equality and equity and what that does within...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Crash Course Us History: Women in the 19th Century

For Students 9th - 10th
In which John Green finally gets around to talking about some women's history. In the 19th Century, the United States was changing rapidly, as we noted in the recent Market Revolution and Reform Movements episodes. Things were also in a...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Crash Course Us History: Women's Suffrage

For Students 9th - 10th
In which John Green teaches you about American women in the Progressive Era and, well, the progress they made. So the big deal is, of course, the right to vote women gained when the 19th amendment was passed and ratified. But women made...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: The Women's Movement

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This is a collection of eight short videos designed to cover the two waves of Women's Movement in the United States: The first wave in the 19th and early 20th century with leaders such as Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton...
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Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History

Gilder Lehrman Institute: History Now: Women and the Revolution

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Speaker Carol Berkin, of both Baruch College and the City University of New York, discusses her research on the critical roles women played in the American Revolution. [2:31]
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Women in Stem: Prejudice and Progress: Decoding Watson

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore Rosalind Franklin's legacy as a pioneering woman in STEM in this media gallery from the American Masters film Decoding Watson. Biologists and historians of science examine the prejudices Franklin faced, how the climate in...
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Ap Us History Period 6: 1865 1898: Reform in the Gilded Age

For Students 9th - 10th
This video lesson from Khan Academy covers Period 6: 1865-1898 in American History. Reform in the Gilded Age is discussed, specifically associated with poverty and women's rights. This resource is designed as a review for the AP US...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Crash Course Us History: World War Ii Part 2 the Homefront

For Students 9th - 10th
In which John Green teaches you about World War 2, as it was lived on the home front. You'll learn about how the war changed the country as a whole and changed how Americans thought about their country. John talks about the government...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Crash Course Us History: The 1960s in America

For Students 9th - 10th
In which John Green teaches you about a time of relative tumult in the United States, the 1960s. America was changing rapidly in the 1960s, and rights movements were at the forefront of those changes. Civil Rights were dominant, but the...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Crash Course Us History: The Quakers, the Dutch, and the Ladies

For Students 9th - 10th
John Green teaches you about some of the colonies that were not in Virginia or Massachusetts. Old New York was once New Amsterdam. Before the English got there though, the colony was full of Dutch people who treated women pretty fairly,...
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Crash Course

Crash Course Us History: #16: Women in the 19th Century

For Students 9th - 10th
In this Crash Course video, John Green finally gets around to talking about some women's history. In the 19th Century, the United States was changing rapidly, as we noted in the recent Market Revolution and Reform Movements episodes....
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PBS

Pbs: Wyoming Women Get the Vote: State of Equality

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about the history of women's suffrage in Wyoming in this video. [7:26]
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Crash Course

Crash Course Us History #31: Women's Suffrage

For Students 9th - 10th
Women's Suffrage video illustrating the development of women's organizations and their fight for civil rights during the Progressive Era. In a lively presentation, John Green discusses the shifts that occurred between 1890 and 1920...
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Other

Reading Through History: History Brief: Women Gain Suffrage

For Students 9th - 10th
This video explains the process of women gaining suffrage in the United States of America. [5:12]
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Timelines.tv

Timelines Tv: History of Britain: Rulers and Ruled: Votes for Women

For Students 9th - 10th
Looks at the role of women in early 20th century British political society and the fight of the suffragettes to win the right to vote. [8:29]
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Other

Reading Through History: History Brief: The 19th Amendment

For Students 9th - 10th
This video discusses the history of the 19th Amendment to the US Constitution. [5:14]
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Other

Reading Through History: Biography Brief: Elizabeth Cady Stanton

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a short biography of the Women's Suffragist Elizabeth Cady Stanton. [3:27]
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Other

Reading Through History: Biography Brief: Susan B. Anthony

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a short video summarizing the life and achievements of women's suffragist Susan B. Anthony. [3:14]
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A&E Television

History.com: 6 Famous Women Who Were Secretly Spies

For Students 9th - 10th
These 6 women were true triple threats: performers, celebrities - and spies! From Julia Child to Audrey Hepburn, these are 6 famous women who were secretly spies, in this episode of History Countdown. [8:41]
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A&E Television

History.com: Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Brooklyn's Own Supreme Court Justice

For Students 9th - 10th
Ruth Bader Ginsburg has achieved legendary status as the second woman ever appointed to the United States Supreme Court. But her path to Associate Justice was not an easy one, filled with obstacles faced by countless 20th century women...
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A&E Television

History.com: Women Vote After 19th Amendment Passed

For Students 9th - 10th
After decades of organizing, lobbying, and protesting, American women finally gained the right to vote with the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920. This film offers rare footage [3:00] of the struggle leading up to and...
Instructional Video
A&E Television

History.com: Fight for the Vote: The 19th Amendment

For Students 9th - 10th
In 1920, women in the U.S. gained the right to vote - but only after a struggle that lasted more than 70 years! Learn how suffragists fought for the 19th amendment in this video. [4:36]

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