Women’s History

Resource Project

This project is intended to help the 5th grade students at Dexter Middle School to learn more about how women have affected our nation’s history. Included

in the project are pictures, videos, podcasts, photos, and audio segments to help make this part of history come alive and help the students to be made more aware of the impact of women in

the past and to our future.

By Amber GibsonDexter Middle School Librarian

Figure 1: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division [LC-USZ62-93552 DLC]

Professional Resource ProjectAmber Gibson

agibson@scsk12.org (work) or lgibson2@memphis.edu (school)IDT 7064/8064March 26, 2009

Women during Colonial times

Figure 3: Woman performing multiple household tasks.

The Role of Women Before and During the Colonial Period

Women in Colonial America

Marriage in Colonial North Carolina

A collection of articles regarding women and their lives and times during the colonial period.

Anne Hutchinson - an important woman during the Colonial Period

Primary sources on Colonial America including the lives of women

Women during the Salem Witch Trials

A possible cause of the Salem Witch trials including an interactive game

A Salem Witch Trials Webquest

Websites created by students on the topic of Salem Witch trials (Thinkquest)

An interactive witch hunt from National Geographic

Discovery education interactive website on the Witch Trials

Figure 4: “Witch Hill” painting by Thomas Hill depicting the trials.

Women during the Revolutionary War

Women soldiers during the Revolutionary War

Interactive website overviewing the Revolutionary War including the role of Women

Women in the Revolutionary War

A video on the heroine Molly Pitcher

Daughters of Liberty informationFigure 5: Depiction of the woman hero MollyPitcher

Women during the Civil WarSmithsonian Civil War exhibit including

the affect on women

Ladies, Contraband and Spies of the Civil War

The Civil War Through a Child's Eye (Library of Congress)

Women of the American Civil War

Primary sources from Duke University about Women in the Civil War

Primary Sources about Southern Women in the Civil War

Library of Congress War Photos

Figure 6: Lucy Stone, anEarly suffragist during theCivil War.

Women of the Suffrage Movement

Links and introduction of the Women's Suffrage Movement

Susan B. Anthony website

Interactive website from PBS on Suffrage Movement

Interactive website from Scholastic on Suffrage

Little known facts about Women's Suffrage

Brainpop movie on Suffrage (username: shelby, password: county)

Women's suffrage webquestFigure 7: 1923 Memorial Service forSusan B. Anthony

Women during the World Wars

BBC site on World War I and women

Listing of websites of women and WWI

A compilations of video oral histories about WWII

Read lost diary of WWII pilot and lost love from NPR

Links and primary sources on WWI and WWII and women

Library of Congress American Women on the Homefront

Interactive website on women on the homefront

Figure 8: British propaganda poster, WWI

Equal Rights and Vietnam War

Primary sources and links to women in the Vietnam War

Oral accounts and links to Women in Vietnam

Interviews with women in war including Vietnam (Library of Congress)

Timeline and links to Women's Rights

National Women's History Project including Women's Rights Movement

Britannica online includes images, videos, article on women's rights (username: shelby pass: county)

Figure 9: Sally Ride, the first American womanastronaut

Notable WomenFigure 10: Notable women in America

Biography.com has a listing of well-known women in history

Videos on women throughout history (username: shelby, password: county)

Scholastic listing of notable women including weblinks

Listing of famous women by their subjects

Women's milestones from Time for Kids

Links, activities for notable women

ReferencesA & E Television Networks (2009). Women’s History: notable women. Retrieved on

March 25, 2009 from http://www.biography.com/womens-history/notables.jsp.

A & E Television Networks (2009). Women’s History: notable women. Figure 10 retrieved on March 25, 2009 from http://www.biography.com/womens-history/notables.jsp.

American Federation of Teachers. The Suffrage Movement. Retrieved on March 24, 2009 from http://www.aft.org/tools4teachers/women/suffrage.htm.

Americans.net (2007). The American Revolution. Figure 5 retrieved on March 24, 2009 from http://americanrevolution.com/MollyPitcher.htm.

Anne Hutchinson (2003). Anne Hutchinson. Retrieved on March 24, 2009 from http://www. annehutchinson.com/Default.htm.

Archiving Early America (2009) Archiving early America; your window to early America. Retrieved on March 24, 2009 from http://www.earlyamerica.com/.

Archiving Early America (2009) Archiving early America; your window to early America. Retrieved on March 24, 2009 from http://www.earlyamerica.com/.Mollypitcher.htm.

References continuedBourke, J. (2009). Women on the home front in world war one. Retrieved on March

25, 2009 from http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/britain_wwone/women_employment_01.shtml.

BrainPop (2009). BrainPop: Women’s history Retrieved on March 24, 2009 from BrainPop subscription website: http://www.brainpop.com/spotlight/womenshistory/.

BrainPop (2009). BrainPop: Women’s suffrage. Retrieved March 24, 2009 from BrainPop subscription website: http://www.brainpop.com/socialstudies/ushistory/womenssuffrage/preview.weml.

Brittanica online encyclopedia (2009). Women’s rights. Retrieved on March 25, 2009 from Brittanica Encyclopedia website:http://school.eb.com/comptons/search?query=women's+rights&x=0&y=0&ct=.

Brittanica online encyclopedia (2009). Women’s rights. Figure 8 retrieved on March 25, 2009 from Brittanica Encyclopedia website:http://school.eb.com/comptons/search?query=women's+rights&x=0&y=0&ct=.

Central Design Lab (1997). Women of the American Civil War. Retrieved on March 24, 2009 from http://americancivilwar.com/women/women.html.

Discovery Education (2008). Salem witch trials: the world behind the hysteria. Retrieved on March 24, 2009 from http://school.discoveryeducation.com/schooladventures/salemwitchtrials/.

References continuedDuke University (2009). Civil War women: primary sources on the internet.

Retrieved on March 24, 2009 from http://library.duke.edu/specialcollections/bingham/guides/cwdocs.html.

Goldstein, J. S. (2001). The Women of World War I. Figure 8 retrieved on March 25, 2009 from http://www.warandgender.com/wgwomwwi.htm.

Helium, Inc. (2009). Women’s rights in colonial America. Retrieved on March 24, 2009 from http://www.helium.com/items/1165182-womens-right-colonial-period-thirteen-colonies-phillis-wheatley-sojourner-truth.

Imbornoni, A. M. (2009). Women’s rights movement in the U.S. Retrieved on March 25, 2009 from http://www.infoplease.com/spot/womenstimeline2.html.

Library of Congress 1999). The civil war through a child’s eye. Retrieved on March 25, 2009 from http://memory.loc.gov/learn/lessons/99/civilwar/index.html.

Library of Congress (2002)..Daguerreotype portraits. Figure 6 retrieved on March 24, 2009 from http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/daghtml/dagport.html.

References continuedLibrary of Congress (2007). Experiencing war: women at war. Retrieved on March

25, 2009 from http://www.loc.gov/vets/stories/ex-war-womenatwar.html.

Library of Congress (2001). Ladies,contraband and spies: women in the civil war. Retrieved on March 25, 2009 from http://memory.loc.gov/learn/lessons/01/spies/index.html .

Library of Congress (2004). Rosie Pictures: Select images relating to women workers during World War II. Retrieved on March 25, 2009 from http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/list/126_rosi.html .

Library of Congress (2005). Photographs of women during the civil war: select images. Retrieved on March 24, 2009 from http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/list/107_civw.html .

Litt, M. K. (2009). Women in Vietnam. Retrieved on March 25, 2009 from http://www.illyria.com/vnwomen.html.

McGranhan, R. W. (1998). Women of the revolution. Retrieved on March 24, 2009 from http://americanrevwar.homestead.com/files/WOMEN.HTM .

Reference continuedMiddleton, K. (2005). American Women’s history: a Research guide: World War I.

Retrieved on March 25, 2009 from http://frank.mtsu.edu/~kmiddlet/history/women/wh-wwi.html.

Middleton, K. (2004). American Women’s history: a Research guide: Vietnam war. Retrieved on March 25, 2009 from http://frank.mtsu.edu/~kmiddlet/history/women/wh-vietnam.html.

MultiEducator, Inc. (2008). Women in the revolutionary war. Retrieved on March 24, 2009 from http://www.historycentral.com/Revolt/Americans/women.html.

National Geographic Society (2005). Salem: witchcraft hysteria. Retrieved on March 24, 2009 from http://www.nationalgeographic.com/salem/.

National Public Radio (2009). The world war II diary and lost love. Retrieved on March 25, 2009 from http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1671596.

National Women’s History Museum (2007). Did you know? Facts about Women Suffrage. Retrieved on March 24, 2009 from http://www.nwhm.org/RightsforWomen/didyouknow.html.

Reference continuedNational Women’s History Project (2008). NWHP. Retrieved on March 24, 2009

from http://www.nwhp.org/resourcecenter/pathbreakers.php.

Oracle Education Foundation (2008). Salem Witch trials. Retrieved on March 24, 2009 from http://www.thinkquest.org/library/cat_show.html?cat_id=342.

Osborn, T. (2008). World War I. Retrieved on March 25, 2009 from http://www.teacheroz.com/wwi.htm#homefront.

PBS television (2004). Liberty! Road to revolution. Retrieved on March 24, 2009 from http://www.pbs.org/ktca/liberty/road.html.

PBS television (1999). Not for ourselves alone: the story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony. Retrieved on March 24, 2009 from http://www.pbs.org/stantonanthony/index.html.

PBS television (2002). Secrets of the dead: the witches’ curse. Retrieved on March 24, 2009 from http://www.pbs.org/wnet/secrets/previous_seasons/case_salem/index.html.

Reference continuedPearson Education (2008). Biographies of notable women. Retrieved on March 25,

2009 from http://www.factmonster.com/spot/womenhistbios.html.

Pearson Education (2009). Women’s history month printables, activities, and resources for kids. Retrieved on March 25, 2009 from http://www.familyeducation.com/home/.

Pilgrim Hall Museum (1998). Elizabeth Paddy Wensley. Retrieved on March 24, 2009 from http://www.pilgrimhall.org/epwport.htm.

Sage, H. J. (2007). Women in colonial America. Retrieved on March 24, 2009 from http://www.academicamerican.com/colonial/topics/women.htm.

Salem Witchcraft webquest. Salem witchcraft webquest American studies. Retrieved on March 24, 2009 from http://www.umsl.edu/~ryanga/amer.studies/amst.salemwegquest.html.

Scholastic (2009). American Home front. Retrieved on March 25, 2009 from http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/wwii/ahf/index.htm.

Scholastic (2009). Honor roll of notable women. Retrieved on March 25, 2009 from http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/women/notable.htm.

Reference continuedScholastic (2009). Women’s Suffrage. Retrieved on March 24, 2009 from

http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/suffrage/.

Smithsonian Institute (2009). The price of freedom: Americans at war. Retrieved on March 24, 2009 from http://americanhistory.si.edu/militaryhistory/exhibition/flash.html.

Time Inc. (2009). Women’s history milestones. Retrieved on March 25, 2009 from http://www.timeforkids.com/TFK/specials/whm/0,8805,101045,00.html.

Truluck, L. Webquest for Women’s suffrage. Retrieved on March 24, 2009 from http://www.angelfire.com/sc3/ltruluck/webquest.htm#Teachers%20Page.

University of California (2009). Rosie the Riveter: WWII American homefront project. Retrieved on March 25, 2009 from http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/ROHO/projects/rosie/.

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University of Rochester (2006). Suffrage history. Figure 7 retrieved on March 25, 2009 from http://www.rochester.edu/sba/suffragehistory.html.

Reference continuedUniversity of Virginia (1997). Hearts at home: Southern women in the Civil

War. Retrieved on March 24, 2009 from http://www2.lib.virginia.edu/exhibits/hearts/.

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Wilson, B. A. (1996). Amazing women in war and peace. Retrieved on March 24, 2009 from http://userpages.aug.com/captbarb/femvets.html.