National Endowment for the Humanities
Women's Equality: Changing Attitudes And Beliefs
Students analyze archival materials contemporaneous with the birth of the Women's Rights Movement, and begin to appreciate the deeply entrenched opposition the early crusaders had to overcome. They discuss whether or not such attitudes...
Curated OER
Exploring Women's History
Students read and analyze Jessie Benton Fremont's travelogue of her trip out west in 1849 to identify the gender roles, social attitudes and class distinctions of the time. They then adapt the the travelogue into a film script.
Curated OER
Women's Votes, Women's Voices
Students investigate Women's Suffrage by analyzing images from the past. In this equal rights lesson, students read biographical work about Emma Smith DeVoe, an activist who fought for women's rights. Students view a comic style...
US National Archives
Nara: Teaching With Documents: Petition Signed by Thomas A. Edison
What a surprise to read about the several controversies engendered by the request that the Columbian Exposition be open on Sundays. This lesson plan examines the background of the main controversy and its relation to the First Amendment....
Other
Anarchy Archives: Emma Goldman's Collected Works
Read the book "Anarchism and Other Essays" here on this site. Includes a biographical sketch of Goldman and several essays pertaining to women's rights.
PBS
Pbs American Experience: Sandra Day O'connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg Changed the Supreme Court, and the Country
Despite their differences, the first and second female Supreme Court justices found common ground on women's equality.
Digital History
Digital History: Feminism Reborn
This comprehensive survey of the women's movement during the 1960s and 1970s documents women and politics, women's wages, legal discrimination against women, stereotypes of women, women's rights legislation, and women's rights...
National Endowment for the Humanities
Neh: Edsit Ement: Women's Equality: Changing Attitudes and Beliefs
In this lesson plan, students will consider "Women's Equality: Changing Attitudes and Beliefs." The plan includes worksheets and other student materials that can be found under the resource tab.
PBS
Pbs: American Experience: Emma Goldman
Tells the story of a young, brilliant, Russian immigrant who taunted mainstream America with her outspoken attacks on government, big business, and war.
Other
From History to Her Story:yorkshire Women's Lives Online
Showcased are the lives of women in Yorkshire, England, from the 2nd century CE to the present day. The site presents 85,000 digitized images and microfilmed documents from the collections of the archives and libraries in and around...
Other
Feminist Majority Foundation Online
This site from the Feminist Majority Foundation identifies key areas in which they are working to establish equality for women: Find information on women and girls in sports, breast cancer center, feminist career center, global feminism,...
Other
Living the Legacy: The Women's Rights Movement
The homepage of the National Women's History Project, this site includes links to suffrage history, timeline, a chat room, and student projects. Also information about the 150th anniversary of the Seneca Falls convention and national...
Other
International Labour Organization: Bureau for Gender Equality
This home from the International Labour Organization provides information on women's equality issues in labor. Find statistics and indicators on income, economic activity, unemployment, and more. Site also provides information on...
PBS
Pbs American Experience: Emma Goldman (1869 1940)
A notorious lecturer, fearless writer, and merciless publisher, Goldman was one of the most controversial women in America. For more than thirty years, she defined the limits of dissent and free speech in Progressive Era America.
Digital History
Digital History: University of Houston: Women's Liberation
The women's movement was launched with the publication of the book "The Feminine Mystique" by Betty Friedan in 1963. After years of interviewing women, Friedan concluded that many were unhappy in their lives and unhappy with their...