Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: The Cost of Human Rights: Women, War, & Peace

For Students 9th - 10th
Follow Clemencia Carabali, a community activist from Cauca, as she travels to Washington, D.C to share with congressional staffers the perspective of Cauca's residents- while the Colombian government has one story to tell, many of its...
Instructional Video
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Art History: Mary Cassatt: Breakfast in Bed

For Students 9th - 10th
Provides an extensive look at Mary Cassatt's painting 'Breakfast in Bed', which is an example of Impressionism art. An audio guide by two art critics provides further discussion and description of the painting. [3:06]
Instructional Video
Indiana University

The Center on Congress: Congressional Moments Videos

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
View brief videos examining key legislation throughout our nation's history that impacts our lives today. Topics include Child Labor, Civil Rights, Securities and Exchange Commission, National Park Service, The Marshall Plan, and Women's...
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Empowerment

For Students 9th - 10th
This video from Women, War & Peace demonstrates the power of women and suggests that in today's world, especially with the evolution of communication, the presence of women at peace talks is necessary and inevitable. [7:44]
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Shugufa: Struggle to Learn: Wide Angle

For Students 9th - 10th
Follow Shugufa, a 13-year-old Afghani girl, and her female classmates' struggle to overcome their school's shortcomings and attain an education in the midst of increasing Taliban efforts to deny education to women. [3:25]
Instructional Video
Tom Richey

Tom Richey: John Stuart Mill: An Introduction

For Students 9th - 10th
Brief video introducing the work of 19th Century English philosopher, John Stuart Mill, in which Tom Richey provides an overview of Mill's books, On Liberty, Utilitarianism, and The Subjection of Women. [8:23]
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Digital Activism: shayfeen.com Film Module

For Students 9th - 10th
This module examines the use of digital technology to further civic engagement in the face of repression. Shayfeen.com activists support the brave judges who step forward and ask for an investigation of election abuses. The women of...
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PBS

Pbs: City of Gold: The Story of South Pass City: Political Pioneers

For Students 3rd - 5th
Learn about the key role South Pass City played in helping Wyoming become the first territory or state to allow women the right to vote and hold public office.
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PBS

Pbs: Nellie Bly: Pioneering Investigative Journalist: Joseph Pulitzer

For Students 9th - 10th
Discover how Nellie Bly went undercover to expose patient abuse in Bellevue Hospital in this video [2:29] from the American Masters film Joseph Pulitzer: Voice of the People. Learn about the birth of investigative journalism and Joseph...
Instructional Video
Reading Rockets

Reading Rockets: Author Interviews: Tanya Lee Stone

For Students 1st - 9th
Tanya Lee Stone writes a little bit of everything - science, history, biography, poetry, and fiction - for kids and teens. She's written middle grades biographies of pioneering women in the NASA space program, Amelia Earhart, and Ella...
Instructional Video
Reading Rockets

Reading Rockets: Author Interviews: Laurie Halse Anderson

For Students 1st - 7th
Laurie Halse Anderson is a compelling writer who plays with form and style to present individuals from the inside. Her playful side emerges when she looks at real history and women who played a role in it. Anderson also has a particular...
Instructional Video
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Niki De Saint Phalle

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about artist Niki de Saint Phalle, and how Pop art was a vehicle for international and women artists to disrupt an art history that they saw as belonging to mostly male artists in a US-UK context. [3:55]

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