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Lab Girl
By Hope Jahren (Knopf, 2016)
“Each beginning is the end of a waiting. We are each given exactly one chance to be. Each of us is both impossible and inevitable. Every replete tree was first a seed that waited.” Geobiologist Hope Jahren shares with us her unusual and inspiring memoirs growing up in the lab of her science professor father and her own forays into the world of science—a field that seldom recognizes the contributions of women, particularly when Jahren came of age. Every young woman should read this book. You’ll look at yourself differently afterwards. You’ll look at trees differently, too.” — Lori Ann Terjesen, NWHM Director of Education
Each time a girl opens a book and reads a womanless history, she learns she is worth less.
Myra Pollack SadkerProfessor, Author, Researcher, and Activist
Articles & Features
"The Path to Women’s Suffrage: Westward Expansion to the Nineteenth Amendment Ratified" is a unit designed to expand student horizons as they analyze maps and primary documents and share stories of the Westward Expansion relating to gaining women’s suffrage through ratifying the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
Fab Five Biographies
To celebrate the first month of the year, our January Fab Five honors Five First Women!
If we want our girls to benefit from the courage and wisdom of the women before them, we have to share the stories.
Shireen Dodson
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Creating a Female Political Culture
The WAVES Of World War II
Students and Educators
Discover our educational resources. Find lesson plans, biographies, posters, timelines, videos, and more on a wide variety of women's history topics.
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The National Women's History Museum Announces 2020 Women Making History Awards Honorees
