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Women in World History Curriculum's Website

This unique site is full of information and resources to help you learn about women’s history in a global context. Here teachers, students, parents, history buffs, and the interested public can find information on the following topics. (Permission is granted for the reproduction of information on this website by teachers for their classroom use only.)

  • Lessons on commonly taught topics you can use.

  • Biographies of women rulers, women who are considered heroes in their countries, influential women from selected eras, and women Nobel Peace Prize winners.

  • Historical background Essays on selected topics.
        
  • Teaching Women's Rights  Essays, Lessons, Biographies, Links, and Curriculum
      
  • Women’s Ways to Connect Across Cultural Borders-Past and Present-Essays and Lessons

  • Connecting Women to the Silk Roads - this section offers a variety of ways to incorporate female experiences into the historical narrative we call the Silk Road, a topic which is widely taught but which largely ignores ways in which women participated alongside men. Essays, Biographies, Lessons and Links.

  • Reviews
     Reviews of Curriculum created for world history classes.
     Book Reviews of reference, statistics, anthologies, and general history books.
     Historical Mysteries which feature females who solve crimes.
     
  • Q & A  providing answers to questions visitors have asked about Women’s History.

  • The ONLINE STORE describes our curriculum units and includes the table of contents and at least one sample lesson from each. See direct links for purchasing each unit below.

    Curriculum Unit

    WOMEN'S RIGHTS
    FROM PAST TO PRESENT
    Primary Source Lessons

    Students analyze excerpted sources to critique the extent to which societies from diverse eras viewed women’s rights. Sources come from early legal codes and influential writings, Enlightenment era debates about natural rights, 19th century reform movements, demands of the early 20th century “new women”, and cases studies of contemporary efforts to ensure that “human rights are women’s rights.”

      View Table of Contents
      Sample Lessons: #1, #2, #3
  • Information About Us - who the director is and why this project began.

Women of Courage: A Biography/Art Collaboration - activity demonstrating collaboration between university and highschool classes and the International Museum of Women (IMOW) to forward awareness of both historic and contemporary global women. Features sixteen student created biographies and protraits.

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