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Mary Baker Eddy Library: Mary Baker Eddy
This resource provides a timeline, biography, and collection of works by and about Mary Baker Eddy.
Library of Congress
Loc: America's Story: The Modern Era
For a brief overview of the period after World War II until the present, visit this Library of Congress resource. Learn about the Cold War and the first man to walk on the moon.
Ohio State University
Opper Project: Using Editorial Cartoons to Teach History (Lesson Plans)
Two dozen lessons that focus on using political cartoons as primary source resources for teaching American history. Lessons cover a range of topics in U.S. history from the Civil War era forward and are linked to Ohio content standards.
Ohio State University
Opper Project: Using Editorial Cartoons to Teach History (Lesson Plans)
Two dozen lessons that focus on using political cartoons as primary source resources for teaching American history. Lessons cover a range of topics in U.S. history from the Civil War era forward and are linked to Ohio content standards.
Thomson Reuters
Find Law: u.s. Constitution: Nineteenth Amendment
This resource provides the 19th Amendment and a short history of the women's suffrage movement state by state.
Ducksters
Ducksters: Biography for Kids: Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Explore the biography of Elizabeth Cady Stanton a leader of the women's suffrage movement she wrote the Declaration of Sentiments and fought for women's rights on this site.
Texas State Library and Archives Commission
Texas State Library and Archives Commission: The Battle Lost and Won: Suffrage Broadside
Here is a broadside addressed to the "8,000,000 Working Women in the United States," which asks questions like "Are you satisfied with your working conditions?" and "How can you get what you want?" Published by the National Woman...
Stephen Byrne
History for Kids: Sojourner Truth
A concise biography highlights the life of Sojourner Truth including her role not only in the abolition movement but also for women's rights.
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: A Biography of America: The Sixties 1954 1974
Interactive feature lets you decide if the feminist movement of the 1960s improved American women's lives. Covers the areas of politics, business, professions, family, and independence. See how your vote compares with others that have...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: The Nineteenth Amendment
Discusses the events that led to women securing the right to vote with the passing of the Nineteenth Amendment.
Digital History
Digital History: The Tumultous 1960's
The decade of the 1960s was a time of protest about the Vietnam War and civil rights, and progressive legislation addressing many problems. Find primary source material, charts, and statistics that cover these topics. Included are...
National Humanities Center
National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Boycotting, Making of African American Identity: V. 3
A memoir describing the 1955 Montgomery bus boycott by Jo Ann Gibson Robinson titled, "The Montgomery Bus Boycott and the Women Who Started It." This text describes the importance of African American women in initiating the well-known...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Let's Talk Socratically
For this lesson you will be using the Socratic Seminar Instructional Method. The Socratic Seminar is a great way to get young scholars involved. Socratic seminars are useful in that they teach students to make a point through using the...
University of Missouri
Famous Trials: The Trial of Susan B. Anthony
Arrested for "illegal voting", suffragist Susan B. Anthony was put on trial, which is chronicled here using historical documents, testimony, and primary source material.
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Humanists of Utah: Lucy Stone (1818 1893)
This site provides a brief biography of Lucy Stone, famous for her leadership in the suffrage and abolitionist movements.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Political Activism in the Progressive Era: Becoming Helen Keller
Learn about the life and political activism of Helen Keller, one of the 20th century's human rights pioneers, in the AMERICAN MASTERS documentary Becoming Helen Keller. Utilizing video, discussion questions, teaching tips, and a...
Wikimedia
Wikipedia: Sojourner Truth
Easy to read biography of anti-slavery activist, abolitionist and feminist, Sojourner Truth. Article covers her early life as a slave, her Civil War years, and her famous speeches.
Other
Critical Multicultural Pavilion: A Brief History of Multicultural Education
Read a brief history and current status of multicultural education. See why educators felt that introducing multicultural educational programs into the curriculum was important for all cultures.
Library of Congress
Loc: Carrie Burnham Argued for Right to Vote
A short description of one of the arguments for women's right to vote.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Ap Us History: 1890 1945: The Age of Empire: The Progressive Era
The Progressive Era from the 1890s to the 1920s evolved as a response to the negative effects of industrialization. Reforms that emerged provided protections for workers and consumers and gave women voting rights. Backlash against the...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Us History: 1945 1980: Second Wave Feminism
During the 1960s, influenced and inspired by the Civil Rights Movement, women of all ages began to fight to secure a stronger role in American society.
PBS
Pbs: Hopes on the Horizon Morocco
A companion website to a documentary on the rise of pro-democracy movements in Morocco during the 1990s.
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Classroom: The Pursuit of Justice
This book analyzes 30 Supreme Court cases chosen by a group of Supreme Court justices and leading civics educators as the most important for American citizens to understand. An additional 100 significant cases included in state history...
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Book Club Unit: A View From Saturday e.l. Konigsburg
This site has a list of web sites that can be used to support the book "The View from Saturday," by E.L. Konigsburg.
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