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Women's History Month | All About the Holidays
A quick and engaging video features the origins of Women's History Month. Details start with its humble beginnings in Sonoma, California to its nationwide growth by way of the National Women's History Project.
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Women's History Minute: Grace Hopper
Navy WAVE, Rear Admiral, developer of the Mark 1, an early electronic computer. Grace Hopper is the subject of a short Women's History Minute that introduces viewers to this amazing electronics pioneer.
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Women's History Minute: Finance
An advocate for equal pay and promotional opportunities for women, Muriel Siebert, was the first woman to sit on the New York Stock Exchange. A short video provides viewers with an introduction to Siebert's achievements.
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Women's History Minute: Ida B. Wells
Before Rosa Parks, there was Ida B. Wells. In 1884, Wells was arrested for refusing to leave the first-class women's car on a train to Chicago. Born into slavery, raised in the south, Wells became a newspaper publisher, an advocate for...
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Women's History Minute: Katherine Johnson
Launch a study of Katherine Johnson and her contributions to the NASA Space Program with a short video that introduces viewers to little-known information about the role she and other women played. The video also reveals the gender bias...
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Women's History Minute: Flight
You know Amelia Earhart and Sally Ride, but few recall the contributions of Harriet Quimby, Bessie Coleman, Florence Lowe Barnes, and Jacqueline Cochran to the history of flight. A short video introduces viewers to these high-flying women.
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Women's History Minute: Progressive Era
A brief video offers an overview of the Progressive Era. With eye-catching media, a host describes how the women dedicated their time towards social change—how they spoke out about the need for new developments in all aspects of life.
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Women's History Minute: Sojourner Truth
A short video introduces viewers to an abolitionist, women's rights activist, and former enslaved person, Sojourner Truth. The video showcases the importance of her "Ain't I A Woman speech."
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Women's History Minute: Suffrage
The American West may have been a wild place in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, but they were far more progressive than eastern states in granting women the right to vote. A brief video outlines how Wyoming and other western...
TED-Ed
The Historic Women’s Suffrage March on Washington
March 3, 1913, thousands of women marched on Washington D.C. to demand the right to vote. Learn about the organizers and leaders of the protest with a short video that details how the protest reignited the fight for voting rights and...
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Women's History Minute: Marian Anderson
A short video spotlights opera singer Marian Anderson's accomplishments alongside her struggles with racism and segregation.
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Women's History Minute: Dr. Chien-Shiung Wu
Born in Suzhou, China, experimental physicist Dr. Chien-Shiung Wu immigrated to the United States, where she worked on the Manhattan Project. A short video introduces viewers to the amazing achievements of this remarkable woman.
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Women's History Minute: Ellen Ochoa
Imagine spending 978 hours in space! Meet Ellen Ochoa, the first Hispanic woman astronaut and the Johnson Space Center director who has done just that. The accomplishments of this amazing woman will inspire viewers.
HISTORY Channel
Women of Music
There were a lot of firsts for women in music. From being the first to sing and write about birth control to speaking out about issues of their time, female singers represent a voice that had not been heard by many before. Young viewers...
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Women in Politics
The glass ceiling is more fragile with every generation of strong women. Watch a video that explains how some women helped lay the foundation toward establishing women in politics.
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Women in the Cockpit
Alberta Kinney was a member of the Women's Airforce Service Pilot (WASP) program. They were some of the first women in America to fly army aircraft in World War II. Viewers discover who Kinney was and how the program shaped women's...
TED-Ed
History's "Worst" Nun
It wasn't easy being a woman, a nun, a poet, and an activist for women's rights in the mid-17th century, especially in Mexico. Juana Ramirez de Asbaje was all the above. Learn more about this amazing woman in a short video that details...
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The 19th Amendment | History
An engaging video provides scholars with how the 19th Amendment came to be. Beginning with the Declaration of Sentiments signed at the Women's Rights Convention in 1848, viewers meet major contributors to the movement and take in the...
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International Women's Day | All About the Holidays
Women today enjoy many rights, privileges, and opportunities not afforded to generations past—but there is still work to be done. Learn about International Women's Day with a short video that details the historical path toward equality...
TED-Ed
The Hidden Women of STEM
Despite the recent push to involve young women in STEM careers, the percentage of women in science, technology, engineering, and math is still low. In a short video, Alexis Scott, scientist, engineer, and mathematician offers advice on...
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Seneca Falls, NY | Unstoppable: The Road to Women's Rights
Viewers of a short video travel along with a young woman who visits historic sites in Seneca Falls, New York. Her goal is to try to determine what it was about this small town that helped it become the center of the Women's Rights Movement.
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Single Women Homesteaders
A brief video examines the lives of single women during the 1862 Homestead Act. Experts discuss the history of homesteading while actual letters written by female landowners detail their hardships and perseverance experienced on their...
TED-Ed
The Murder of Ancient Alexandria's Greatest Scholar
Hypatia, teacher, and advisor to the governor of Alexandria, was a Neoplatonist, believing that arithmetic, geometry, astronomy, and music were the sacred language of the universe. Find out why this brilliant scholar was brutally...
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Courage In Corsets: The Women's Suffrage Movement in the Northwest
In 1910, Washington became the fifth state to give women the right to vote. A short video introduces the Suffrage Movement in the Northwest that gain women in those states the right to vote years before women gained the right in eastern...
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