Digital Classroom Resources

Students will examine a timeline of the life of Mary Church Terrell and complete a close reading of her speech, “The Progress of Colored Women” (1898)

In Spring 2023, the National Women's History Museum partnered with a class at Miss Hall's School, an independent high school for girls in Massachusetts, to create a discussion guide for select sites featured in "We Who Believe in Freedom."

The story of a company founded by four US Women’s National Team soccer players seeking to challenge norms and inspire lasting progress.

How can food be used as a form of cultural memory & resistance?

What about society has changed to bring the idea of justice for “comfort women” after being forgotten for almost 50 years?

The story of a leader in social, environmental, and political activism and first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize.

How have Indigenous people exercised sovereignty and self-determination in the modern world?

How has Title IX impacted women in education and sports over the last 5 decades?

This is a short thirty-minute lesson on Frances Ellen Watkins Harper.

The students will discuss diversity within the economics profession and in the federal government, and the functions of the Federal Reserve System and U. S. monetary policy, by reviewing a historic timeline and analyzing the acts of Janet Yellen.

In this lesson, students will experience the tragedy of the commons through a team activity in which they compete for resources.

Students will analyze the life of Hon. Yvonne B. Miller, her accomplishments, and leadership attributes, so they can apply persuasive techniques to amplify her accomplishments, leadership attributes, as well as those in leadership roles in their community

Students will analyze different perspectives of Stacey Abrams’s candidacy for Georgia’s Governor to learn about civic responsibility.

Students will use primary and secondary resources to introduce themselves to the life and works of Frances Perkins, the first female cabinet member who served as the Secretary of Labor.

In this lesson, students will consider what life in America was like prior to Roe v. Wade.

The Delano Grape Strike represents one of the most important labor movements in American history and demonstrates an intersection between the Civil Rights Movement and the movement initiated by the Mexican-American and Filipino-American communities. 

Students will explore Angela Davis’ call for intersectionality and a feminist solidarity for the 21st century.

The objective of this lesson is to help students thinking critically about public history and the decision-making that goes into designing and advocating for public memorials to commemorate women in American history.