Teachers' Corner on Women's History

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

>ANNOUNCEMENT
>Teachers' Corner on women's history
>
>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 at binghamton.edu>
>
>H-RADHIST is sponsored by the RADICAL HISTORY REVIEW.
><http://chnm.gmu.edu/rhr>