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Women They Talk About: Documenting Early Women Filmmakers with the American Film Institute

Lesson Plan

Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wall-paper” & the “New Woman”

Media Resource

BackStory: Making the Team: Sports and Equality in American History

Curriculum

Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz: The First Great Latin American Poet

Lesson Plan

Women's Suffrage: Why the West First?

Lesson Plan

Scripting the Past: Exploring Women's History Through Film

Resources for

Teaching

Women's

History

Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, 1872.

Frances Ellen Watkins Harper’s “Learning to Read”

Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815–1902), Our roll of honor, signatures to the Declaration of Sentiments Set Forth by the First Woman's Rights Convention held at Seneca Falls, New York, July 19–20, 1848.

The Declaration of Sentiments by the Seneca Falls Conference (1848)

Three suffragists casting votes in New York City, 1917.

Voting Rights for Women: Pro- and Anti-Suffrage

Suffragette Mrs. Sophia Loebinger speaking before City Hall, New York

Teaching Women’s History through Great Speeches

Eleanor Roosevelt in Arthurdale, West Virginia, 1933.

Lesson 5: Eleanor Roosevelt and the Rise of Social Reform in the 1930s

Judy Richardson (center, holding notebook) with other SNCC staff workers

Grassroots Perspectives on the Civil Rights Movement: Focus on Women

United States Postal Service commemorative stamp of Shirley Chisholm, issued in 2014.

BackStory: You've Come A Long Way—A History of Women in Politics

Photograph of Maya Angelou delivering a speech in 2008.

Maya Angelou: A Phenomenal Woman

Collage of women featured in Unladylike 2020

Unladylike 2020: The Changemakers

NEH Connections

NEH programs, projects, and resources for educators

Media Resource

Why Here?: Eatonville, Florida and Zora Neale Hurston

Media Resource

Q&A with Public Scholar Candacy Taylor