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Pbs Learning Media: Women in Stem: Prejudice and Progress: Decoding Watson
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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Pbs Learning Media: Crash Course Us History: Women in the 19th Century
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 Learning Media: Crash Course Us History: Women's Suffrage
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 Learning Media: The Women's Movement
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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Pbs Learning Media: Women's History: Activity Pack | History Detectives
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...
Library of Congress
Loc: Webcast: History of Household Technology
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,...
Crash Course
Crash Course Us History: #16: Women in the 19th Century
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....
Other
Reading Through History: History Brief: Women in the American Revolution
In this video, the roles several women played in the American Revolution are discussed. Abigail Adams, Mercy Otis Warren, Judith Sargent Murray, Mary Ludwig Hayes, Margaret Corbin, and Deborah Sampson are discussed. [4:27]
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Pbs Learning Media: Crash Course Us History: The Roaring 20s
In which John Green teaches you about the United States in the 1920s. They were known as the roaring 20s, but not because there were lions running around everywhere. In the 1920s, America's economy was booming, and all kinds of social...
Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Gilder Lehrman Institute: History Now: Women and the Revolution
[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]
Crash Course
Crash Course Us History #31: Women's Suffrage
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...
Timelines.tv
Timelines Tv: History of Britain: Rulers and Ruled: Votes for Women
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]
Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Gilder Lehrman Institute: Pursuit of Equity: Women, Men, Economic Citizenship
"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...
A&E Television
History.com: Fight for the Vote: The 19th Amendment
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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Pbs Learning Media: Women and Education in the Progressive Era: Becoming Helen Keller
Examine the history of women in college during the Progressive Era through the lens of Helen Keller's experience in this video from the AMERICAN MASTERS film Becoming Helen Keller. Using video, discussion questions, teaching tips, and a...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Ap Us History Period 6: 1865 1898: Reform in the Gilded Age
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 Learning Media: Crash Course Us History: World War Ii Part 2 the Homefront
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 Learning Media: Crash Course Us History: The 1960s in America
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 Learning Media: Crash Course Us History: The Quakers, the Dutch, and the Ladies
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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Pbs: Wyoming Women Get the Vote: State of Equality
Learn about the history of women's suffrage in Wyoming in this video. [7:26]
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Reading Through History: History Brief: Women Gain Suffrage
This video explains the process of women gaining suffrage in the United States of America. [5:12]
A&E Television
History.com: 6 Famous Women Who Were Secretly Spies
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]
A&E Television
History.com: Women Vote After 19th Amendment Passed
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...
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Pbs Learning Media: Making Women's Health a Priority: Wide Angle
An interview with Dr. Margaret Chan, Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) about a program which trains midwives to perform surgeries during pregnancy and childbirth in Mozambique, a country suffering from a shortage of...
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