Loc: Nineteenth Century Women: Struggle and Triumph Lesson Plan

Journals, letters, and narratives reveal a part of America's history not revealed in textbooks, the story of women, namely the women of the 1800s. With this lesson, students gain understanding of women and history through various primary sources, draw conclusions about the lives of women in different parts of the country, and write a letter in the voice of one of the women they have researched.