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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Women in Stem: Prejudice and Progress: Decoding Watson

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore Rosalind Franklin's legacy as a pioneering woman in STEM in this media gallery from the American Masters film Decoding Watson. Biologists and historians of science examine the prejudices Franklin faced, how the climate in...
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Instructional Video
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Ap Us History Period 6: 1865 1898: Reform in the Gilded Age

For Students 9th - 10th
This video lesson from Khan Academy covers Period 6: 1865-1898 in American History. Reform in the Gilded Age is discussed, specifically associated with poverty and women's rights. This resource is designed as a review for the AP US...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Crash Course Us History: Who Won the American Revolution

For Students 9th - 10th
John Green teaches you about the American Revolution. John will teach you about the major battles of the war, and discuss the strategies on both sides. Everyone is familiar with how this war played out for the Founding Fathers; they got...
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Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Crash Course Us History: The Market Revolution

For Students 9th - 10th
John Green teaches you about the Market Revolution. In the first half of the 19th century, the way people lived and worked in the United States changed drastically. At play was the classic American struggle between the Jeffersonian ideal...
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Instructional Video
A&E Television

History.com: The Abolitionist Movement

For Students 9th - 10th
A detailed account of the Abolitionist Movement, and the roles certain men and women took to ensure the liberation of all slaves. Hear of Reverend John Rankin's freedom lantern, William Lloyd Garrison's Liberator and John Brown's...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Crash Course Us History: The Quakers, the Dutch, and the Ladies

For Students 9th - 10th
John Green teaches you about some of the colonies that were not in Virginia or Massachusetts. Old New York was once New Amsterdam. Before the English got there though, the colony was full of Dutch people who treated women pretty fairly,...
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Instructional Video
Crash Course

Crash Course Us History: #16: Women in the 19th Century

For Students 9th - 10th
In this Crash Course video, John Green finally gets around to talking about some women's history. In the 19th Century, the United States was changing rapidly, as we noted in the recent Market Revolution and Reform Movements episodes....
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Instructional Video
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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Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Women and Education in the Progressive Era: Becoming Helen Keller

For Students 9th - 10th
Examine the history of women in college during the Progressive Era through the lens of Helen Keller's experience in this video from the AMERICAN MASTERS film Becoming Helen Keller. Using video, discussion questions, teaching tips, and a...
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Other

Reading Through History: History Brief: Women in the American Revolution

For Students 9th - 10th
In this video, the roles several women played in the American Revolution are discussed. Abigail Adams, Mercy Otis Warren, Judith Sargent Murray, Mary Ludwig Hayes, Margaret Corbin, and Deborah Sampson are discussed. [4:27]
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Instructional Video
Crash Course

Crash Course Us History #40: The 1960s in America

For Students 9th - 10th
In which John Green teaches you about a time of relative tumult in the United States, the 1960s. America was changing rapidly in the 1960s, and rights movements were at the forefront of those changes. Civil Rights were dominant, but the...
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Instructional Video
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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Instructional Video
Crash Course

Crash Course Us History #7: Who Won the American Revolution?

For Students 9th - 10th
In this Crash Course video, John Green teaches you about the American Revolution and the Revolutionary War. I know we've labored the point here, but they weren't the same thing. In any case, John will teach you about the major battles of...
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Instructional Video
Crash Course

Crash Course Us History #36: World War Ii Part Ii the Homefront

For Students 9th - 10th
Second of two parts on WWII. Crash Course video presents a lively discussion on the changes brought about by WWII, both home and abroad. John Green teaches about expanding economy and government, greater opportunity for women and...
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Other

Reading Through History: History Brief: Dorothea Lange

For Students 9th - 10th
This video provides a brief biography of Dorothea Lange and her contributions to history and the world of photography. Lange took some of the most memorable images of both the Great Depression in the 1930s and the internment of Japanese...
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Instructional Video
A&E Television

History.com: Virginia Hall: The Most Feared Allied Spy of Wwii

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn how Virginia Hall, woman with a prosthetic leg, became the most feared allied spy in WWII. See how she eluded Nazi capture and aided in a victory at D-Day. [2:11]
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Instructional Video
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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Instructional Video
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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Instructional Video
PBS

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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