Unit Components Explained
- Readings: Digital essays of 10-12 pages each, reinforced with audio, video, animation, and primary sources.
- Activities: Primary source or data-driven problem. Includes a context-building background section. Includes several assessment options, including an analytical activity, free response poll, and quiz poll to generate classroom or online discussion. At-home activity quiz also available.
Assessment items on these pages are reviewable on the site.
Overview of Women’s History, by Patricia Evridge Hill, San Jose State University
Chapter 1: Colonial Women, 1607-1750, by Tatiana Irwin, College of San Mateo
- Reading: Colonial Women, 1607-1750
- Activity: John White and the Vision of the New World
- Activity: European Views of Native American Women
- Activity: Why do Women figure so prominently in Witchcraft Trials?
- Activity: The Trial of Anne Hutchinson
- Activity: Devils in the New World
- Video Library
Chapter 2: Revolutionary Mothers and Republican Motherhood, 1750-1800, by Emily Tiepe, Fullerton College
- Reading: Revolutionary Mothers and Republican Motherhood, 1750-1800
- Activity: Medicine and Women in the 18th Century
- Activity: Women’s Education and Republican Motherhood
- Video Library
Chapter 3: Women and the Antebellum Reform Movements, 1800-1860, by Erin Miller, Bakersfield College
- Reading: Women and Antebellum Reform Movements, 1800-1860
- Activity: Horace Mann and Education
- Activity: Measuring Alcoholism
- Video Library
Chapter 4: The Struggle for Women’s Suffrage, 1848-1920, by Eva Mo, Modesto Junior College
- Reading: The Struggle for Women’s Suffrage, 1848-1920
- Activity: The Women’s Suffrage Movement and the West
- Activity: Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the AERA
- Video Library
Chapter 5: Women of the West and South, 1866-1920, by Patricia Evridge Hill, San Jose State University
- Reading: Women of the South and West, 1866-1920
- Activity: Slave Recollections in the Federal Writers’ Project
- Activity: The Richmond Bread Riots
- Video Library
Chapter 6: Women at Work, 1870-1940, by Allison Hepler, University of Maine, Farmington
- Reading: Women at Work, 1870-1940
- Activity: The Psychological Effect of the Great Depression
- Activity: Dorothea Lange and the Hispanic Farmworkers
- Activity: Ethnic Enclaves and Jane Addams
- Activity: Letters to the Roosevelts
- Video Library
Chapter 7: Women at War and Peace, 1914-1960, by Gabrielle Goldberg, New York University
- Reading: Women at War and Peace, 1914-1960
- Activity: Women and the Homefront
- Activity: Patriotic Music
- Activity: Was the flapper a feminist?
- Video Library
Chapter 8: Modern Feminism, 1960-present, by Christine Eubanks, Bergen College
- Reading: Modern Feminism, 1960-present (late August 2019)
- Activity: Title IX and Women’s Sports
- Activity: The Gender Gap and Voting
- Activity: The Living Wage Movement
- Activity: Bill Clinton’s Welfare Reform Speech, 1995
- Activity: The Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)
- Activity: Sexual Harassment and Anita Hill
- Activity: Gender, Age, and Voting
- Activity: Women in Congress, 1917-2011
- Activity: Rapid Social Change and the LGBT Community
- Video Library
Possible Scholar’s Mart Items (Items on these pages are reviewable on the site)
Women in Government and Politics Suite ($5)
Public Women, Local Library ($2)
The Forgotten Women of the West ($2)
The New Woman, 1860-1920 ($2)
First Ladies ($2)
Christian Feminism ($2)
Black Feminism ($2)
The American Nurses Association embraces Feminism ($2)
Radicalization of Feminism ($2)