Voting Rights for Women: Pro- and Anti-Suffrage

Students research archival material to examine nineteenth and early twentieth century arguments for and against women's suffrage.

Who Were the Foremothers of Women's Equality?

Women's Equality: Changing Attitudes and Beliefs

Students analyze archival cartoons, posters, magazine humor, newspaper articles and poems that reflect the deeply entrenched attitudes and beliefs the early crusaders for women’s rights had to overcome.

Women's Suffrage: Why the West First?

Students compile information to examine hypotheses explaining why the first nine states to grant full voting rights for women were located in the West.

Galileo and the Inevitability of Ideas

Test the arguments on both sides in the case that shook the foundations of faith and science.

Socrates and the Law: Argument in an Athenian Jail

Debate the relationship between individual rights and the rule of law with a philosopher condemned to death.