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American Women: A Gateway to Library of Congress Resources for the Study of Women's History and Culture in the United States
This Library of Congress site contains digital materials, an introduction to research in American women's history, tips on searching for women's history resources in the catalogs, and more

American Women's History: A Research Guide (Mid TN State)
Is intended to assist researchers by providing primary source collections and other materials on the internet

Digital History: Women
Digital History features resource guides by topic and period. Reference resources include classroom handouts, chronologies, encyclopedia articles, glossaries, and an audio-visual archive including speeches, book talks and e-lectures by historians, and historical maps, music, newspaper articles, and images. The site's Ask the HyperHistorian feature allows users to pose questions to professional historians.

Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1775-2000
This website is a project of the Center for the Historical Study of Women and Gender at the State University of New York at Binghamton and includes roughly 900 documents, 400 images, and 350 links to other websites. There are twenty comprehensive lesson plans with over a hundred lesson ideas mounted in the Teacher's Corner.

Agents of Social Change (Smith College)
Smith College offers an on-line exhibit and several lesson plans drawn from its collections The lesson plans are directed at middle and high school students and make use of both the text-based documents and visual images that can be found at the curriculum portion of the Web site. They highlight women's part in struggles for social change in the 20th century including labor, socialism, civil liberties, peace, racial justice, urban reform, welfare rights, and women's rights.

Half the People: 1917-1996 (PBS)
Part of PBS's People's Century television series, this site focuses of women's fight for equal rights. There are interviews, a timeline, and a teacher's guide

Living the Legacy : Women's Rights Movement, 1848-1998
Sponsored by the National Women's History Project, the site provides a history of the movement and a detailed timeline.

American Women's History Project
American Women's History provides citations to print and Internet reference sources, as well as to selected large primary source collections

Lesson Plans, Teacher Guides, Activities and more

Teacher Lesson Plan: Women, Their Rights and Nothing Less
A LOC lesson plan that deals with women's rights and the suffrage movement. The lesson plan includes links to many useful resources and also has a list or relevant primary sources. Recommended for high school students.

Teacher Lesson Plan: Voices for Votes Suffrage Strategies
Designed by the Library of Congress for grades 4-6, this lesson plan contains four student activities that detail various suffrage strategies. Activities include writing postcards and making political pins.

Course Models: Social Reformers - Women's Voices
Part of the California History-Social Science content standards and annotated course which include: background information, focus questions, pupil activities and handouts, assessment, and references to books, articles, web sites, literature, audio-video programs, and historic site. Grade 11.

Lesson Plan: Cultural Change
In this MarcoPolo lesson plan, students look at the different arguments women used to gain the right to vote. The lesson plan come with plenty of resources and guidelines. Suitable for High school students.

The Dawn of a New E.R.A.: Debating the Equal Rights Amendment
In this New York Times lesson, students research the history and politics behind the Equal Rights Amendment; they then stage a debate to discuss the Amendment’s potential for ratification eighty years after its introduction to Congress.(May 5, 2003)

Lesson Plan: Exploring Women's History Through Film
In this lesson, students employ the screenwriter's craft to gain a fresh perspective on historical research, learning how filmmakers combine scholarship and imagination to bring historical figures to life and how the demands of cinematic storytelling can shape our view of the past. Presented by MarcoPolo for high school students

Lesson Plan- Voting Rights for Women: Pro- and Anti-Suffrage
MarcoPolo has provided this lesson plan to teach students about both sides of the suffrage movement. The lesson plan comes with its own worksheets and handouts and is intended for grades 6-8

Lesson Plan: Who Were the Foremothers of Women's Equality?
This MarcoPolo lesson plan centers around identifying the leaders of the Suffrage movement. Attention is also paid to the contributions these individuals gave to society. Lesson plan includes materials and suggested reading. It is geared towards middle school students.

Lesson Plan- Women's Suffrage: Why the West First?
In this lesson plan, students seek to answer the question posed in the title. Designed by MarcoPolo, the plan details 7 activities and boasts a vast collection of resources. Grades 6-8

Lesson Plan: Women in the White House
In this lesson, students explore the role and impact of recent First Ladies through research and family interviews, then work in groups to present a documentary portrait to the class. Created by MarcoPolo for Middle School Students

CEC Lesson Plan: The Nineteenth Amendment
In this mini-lesson, students will learn about the Nineteenth Amendment through a fun class exercise. Grades 9-12

U.S. Women's History: Lesson Ideas and Document Based Questions
The Center for the Historical Study of Women and Gender at the State University of New York at Binghamton offers lesson plans, DBQs, links and more on American women's history

Honor Role of Notable Women
Alphabetical list of "Women Achievers" developed by Scholastic.

See also U.S. sections: Early Republic and Progressivism