Women's History Month Teaching Resources
What do these letters from a women's rights activist reveal about social causes in the 1840s? [...] »
Who was Jane Addams, and how is her article "Why Women Should Vote" still relevant today? [...] »
In the struggle for women's suffrage, how did African American women represent themselves? TJ Boisseau reads an article by activist Nannie Helen Burroughs. [...] »
How did the women's suffrage movement use the rise of journalism to its advantage? TJ Boisseau looks at what photographs reveal. [...] »
How does a political cartoon use popular beliefs about women to make its point? Historian TJ Boisseau examines the conventions in this image. [...] »
Teach women's history in March and all year long with these resources. [...] »
Can you trust a biography? Historian Tiya Miles analyzes an 1869 biography of abolitionist Harriet Tubman. [...] »
How do the speeches of Sojourner Truth and Frances Ellen Watkins Harper differ? Historian Carla Peterson examines documents for answers. [...] »
Absolving the guilty and punishing the innocent. Historian Elizabeth Reis looks at primary sources recording testimony in witchcraft trials. [...] »
This Women's History Month, remind your students that women have made history in more ways then one—by recording it, as well as being recorded. [...] »
