The Women and Social Movements website
(http://womhist.binghamton.edu) recently mounted a Teacher's Corner with
some sixty lesson plans and assignments to facilitate use of the primary
documents on the website in high school and college courses in United
States History. The website itself consists of 24 editorial projects with
about 500 primary documents that focus on interpretive questions relating
to women and social reform in United States history between 1820 and
1940. The site is continually expanding and by summer 2001 will include
documents ranging from 1776 to 1990. Current projects include ones
focusing on issues of gender and race, ethnicity, and class. Topics
include African American women at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, the
1909-10 Shirtwaist Strike in New York City, the 1912 Lawrence Strike, the
1938 San Antonio pecan shellers strike, the temperance, antislavery,
antilynching, suffrage, and birth control movements, women in utopian
communities, and male supporters of women's rights. Each project is
organized around a question, provides about twenty related documents and
additional images, a bibliography, and a listing of related WWW links. The
site itself includes a search engine that permits users to search the full
texts of all documents and a section of related links that provides
excellent entry into rich projects elsewhere on the Worldwide Web. The
project has been selected as a top humanities site by EDSITEment and has
been supported by grants from the National Endowment for the
Humanities. With the development of the Teacher's Corner, we are
encouraging teachers to employ these documents in their classes as a way to
provide students a first-hand experience with rich primary materials
focusing on women in American History.
After viewing the website and its Teacher's corner, feel free to
contact the project if you would like to discuss collaborative
possibilities further.
Tom Dublin
tdublin@binghamton.edu
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