Table of Contents for Women’s History

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)