Web Resources for Teaching Women's History Month

Web Resources for Teaching Women's History Month

Joanne Gates

Part I: Videos for CORE:

[As Submitted May 5]

[None of these are required viewing as a prerequisite for attending, and it is unlikely they will be played during the session. Consider them background or the supplements to our annotated bibliographies.]

History of Women's History Month by National Women's History Museum

Also search here for Women's History Minute (Note that many National Women's History Museum videos have background music that may be distracting, from Piano sonatas to Helen Reddy's "I Am Woman.")

Why Women's History Matters: Leigh Ann Wheeler at TEDxBinghamtonUniversity:
A skeptical yet positive approach to whether Women's History Month has made a difference, 15 minutes

Wider view of Women in History:

Great Women: Athletes inducted into National Women's Hall of Fame

Kathrine Switzer

Watch her brief video, telling the real story of her as first woman to run the Boston Marathon, 1967

Great Women of Science

Lynn Sherr talks about her book, Sally Ride: America’s First Woman in Space.

February 2015 in Savannah. This is a book talk of over one hour.

Importance of Black American Women:

Alice McGill re-enacts an appearance by Sojourner Truth

This was originally aired in conjunction with C-Span's American Writers Series
On-Site Programs feature biographical authorities in a conversational and call-in format. Writers featured in this series will be mentioned in the presentation.

Harriet Jacobs' Slave Narrative in Context

Historian and Jacobs biographer Jean Fagan Yellin teaches high school students who have read the Narrative. She is author of _Harriet Jacobs: A Life_ and her investigative work established the authenticity of Jacobs' autobiography, published in 1861 as if by Linda Brent.

Teachers incorporating Women's History should know that Suffragette (with Meryl Streep as Emmeline Pankhurst) premieres in the fall. A very brief trailer has been released. The HBO Film, Iron Jawed Angels (2004) features the effort to pass the 19th Amendment. American Suffragists Alice Paul (Hilary Swank), Lucy Burns, Inez Millholland (Julia Ormond), Carrie Chapman Catt (Angelica Houston) are featured. Clips available on YouTube.

PART II: Further Specifics:

National Women's History Project

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Rich resource for Writing Women Back Into History.

Calendars organize important women’s birthdays. This Month in Women’s History, and the History of the designation of the month of March are featured. Also provides a list of Women’s Performers or Re-enactors, featuring Susan Marie Frontczak, who re-enacts Eleanor Roosevelt, Mary Shelley, and others <

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The History Channel

Short clips, audio of speeches will be preceded by ads. Some materials prepared in collaboration with Library of Congress archivists.

PART III: Archives of Women of Importance

(These are included so that students get a look at the way some major repository is organized. Some will include online access to documents and visuals. Some organize the contents of a physical collection which one has to make an appointment to visit.)

Zora Neale Hurston Archive at University of Central Florida

Also Note: Zora Neale Hurston Plays at the Library of Congress

Beatrix Potter at

All things Jane Austen, originally the Jane Austen Info Page

Gertrude Bell Archive at Newcastle University

Holdings of the NYU Collection, Guide to the Elizabeth Robins Papers

Robins Web at JSU

greatwomen dot org
Library of COngress
For Women Writers on the Web:

A Celebration of Women. (sub set of DigitalPenn)

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