A&E Television
History.com: The Abolitionist Movement
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...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Crash Course Us History: The Quakers, the Dutch, and the Ladies
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,...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Crash Course Us History: The Market Revolution
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...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Crash Course Us History: Who Won the American Revolution
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...
Crash Course
Crash Course Us History: #16: Women in the 19th Century
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....
PBS
Pbs: Wyoming Women Get the Vote: State of Equality
Learn about the history of women's suffrage in Wyoming in this video. [7:26]
Crash Course
Crash Course Us History #31: Women's Suffrage
Women's Suffrage video illustrating the development of women's organizations and their fight for civil rights during the Progressive Era. In a lively presentation, John Green discusses the shifts that occurred between 1890 and 1920...
Other
Reading Through History: History Brief: Women Gain Suffrage
This video explains the process of women gaining suffrage in the United States of America. [5:12]
Timelines.tv
Timelines Tv: History of Britain: Rulers and Ruled: Votes for Women
Looks at the role of women in early 20th century British political society and the fight of the suffragettes to win the right to vote. [8:29]
Other
Reading Through History: History Brief: The 19th Amendment
This video discusses the history of the 19th Amendment to the US Constitution. [5:14]
Other
Reading Through History: Biography Brief: Elizabeth Cady Stanton
This is a short biography of the Women's Suffragist Elizabeth Cady Stanton. [3:27]
Other
Reading Through History: Biography Brief: Susan B. Anthony
This is a short video summarizing the life and achievements of women's suffragist Susan B. Anthony. [3:14]
A&E Television
History.com: 6 Famous Women Who Were Secretly Spies
These 6 women were true triple threats: performers, celebrities - and spies! From Julia Child to Audrey Hepburn, these are 6 famous women who were secretly spies, in this episode of History Countdown. [8:41]
A&E Television
History.com: Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Brooklyn's Own Supreme Court Justice
Ruth Bader Ginsburg has achieved legendary status as the second woman ever appointed to the United States Supreme Court. But her path to Associate Justice was not an easy one, filled with obstacles faced by countless 20th century women...
A&E Television
History.com: Women Vote After 19th Amendment Passed
After decades of organizing, lobbying, and protesting, American women finally gained the right to vote with the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920. This film offers rare footage [3:00] of the struggle leading up to and...
A&E Television
History.com: Fight for the Vote: The 19th Amendment
In 1920, women in the U.S. gained the right to vote - but only after a struggle that lasted more than 70 years! Learn how suffragists fought for the 19th amendment in this video. [4:36]
A&E Television
History.com: Why Hurricanes Have Names
At first, hurricanes were only given women's names -- until some women protested and got storms named after men, too. Check out this short video. [1:01]
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Women and Education in the Progressive Era: Becoming Helen Keller
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...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Making Women's Health a Priority: Wide Angle
An interview with Dr. Margaret Chan, Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) about a program which trains midwives to perform surgeries during pregnancy and childbirth in Mozambique, a country suffering from a shortage of...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Us History: 1890 1945: 1920s Urbanization and Immigration
By the 1920s, a majority of the US population lived in cities rather than in rural areas. Kim explores the economic opportunities cities offered to women, migrants, and immigrants, as well as the passage of new immigration restrictions....
Other
Reading Through History: History Brief: Women in the American Revolution
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]
Tom Richey
Tom Richey: Marie Antoinette (Women and the French Revolution: Part 2)
Part 2 video on Women and the French Revolution outlining the story of Marie Antoinette. For AP Euro, World History and Western Civilization students. [11:11]
Crash Course
Crash Course Us History #40: The 1960s in America
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...
Other
Reading Through History: History Brief: Dorothea Lange
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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