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Pbs Learning Media: Crash Course World History: Japan in the Heian Period and Cultural History

For Students 9th - 10th
Join host John Green to learn about what westerners call the middle ages and the lives of the aristocracy - in Japan. The Heian period in Japan lasted from 794 CE to 1185 CE, and it was an interesting time in Japan. Rather than being...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Crash Course World History: Mansa Musa and Islam in Africa

For Students 9th - 10th
John Green teaches you about Sub-Saharan Africa! So, what exactly was going on there? It turns out, it was a lot of trade, converting to Islam, visits from Ibn Battuta, trade, beautiful women, trade, some impressive architecture, and...
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PBS

Pbs: American Experience: A Midwife's Tale

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This PBS series episode from American Experience entitled "A Midwife's Tale" features a dramatic film based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning story about a woman named Martha Ballard, a midwife and mother living in the wilds of Maine during...
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Pbs Learning Media: Unladylike2020: Collection

For Students 9th - 10th
The Unladylike2020 Collection honors the centennial of women's suffrage. These digital resources present the rich history of 26 little-known Progressive Era women, diverse in profession, race, ethnicity, geographical and class...
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Us History: 1800 1844: Market Revolution Impact and Significance

For Students 9th - 10th
So what's the big deal about the Market Revolution, anyway? Kim describes how it changed the nature of American labor, markets, and culture. [11:55]
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PBS

Pbs: Wyoming Voices: Wyoming Day (Grades K 5)

For Students K - 1st Standards
Students will learn about Wyoming's territorial history, statehood, constitution, and women's rights, in celebration of Wyoming Day.
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Pbs: Wyoming Voices: Wyoming Day (Grades 6 12)

For Students 9th - 10th
Students will learn about the influences of the State of Ohio on the naming and settlement of Wyoming and the state's Constitution. Also discussed is the relationship between Women's Suffrage and the state of Wyoming.
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Pbs Learning Media: Empowering Girls: Classroom Close Up, Nj

For Students 9th - 10th
Highlighting a student project where students learn about the life of New Jersey native and suffragette Alice Paul and other positive role models for girls, such as Amelia Earhart and Malala Yousafzai. As a culminating project, the...
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Crash Course

Crash Course Us History #4: The Quakers, the Dutch, and the Ladies

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

Crash Course World History #16: Mansa Musa and Islam in Africa

For Students 9th - 10th
In this Crash Course video, John Green teaches you about Sub-Saharan Africa! So, what exactly was going on there? It turns out, it was a lot of trade, converting to Islam, visits from Ibn Battuta, trade, beautiful women, trade, some...
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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...
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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]
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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...
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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 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]
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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: 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...
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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...
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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...
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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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