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womeninworldhistory.com

Women in World History Curriculum's Website

This unique site is full of information and resources to help you learn about women’s history in a global, non- U.S., context. Here teachers, students, parents, history buffs, and the interested public can find information on the following topics.

• Today's Heroes  Contemporary Nobel Peace Prize winners linked to historic movements and personalities with similar aims.
  
  
• Biographies of women rulers, and women who are considered heroes in their countries, and influential women from selected eras.
  
  
• Interactive Lessons on commonly taught topics you can use.
  NEW! Women's Rights in Historical Perspective: Primary Sources
  
  
• Historical background Essays on selected topics.
      We have just added an essay on Teaching Women's Rights as Human Rights.  NEW!
  
  
• Reviews
   Reviews of Curriculum created for world history classes.
   Book Reviews of reference, statistics, anthologies, and general history books.
   Historical Mysteries which feature females who solve crimes.
   Reviews of our Women in World History Curriculum Units.
  
  
• Q & A  providing answers to some of the questions visitors have asked about Women’s History.
       NEW! Including Using Women in World History Curriculum Units for Homeschooling.
  
  
• Information About Us - who the director is and why this project began.
  
  
• Web Links to our favorite sites for more information about Women’s World History, and about contemporary issues. NEW! List of Internet Resources for Women's Rights.
  
  

• The ONLINE STORE describes our 16 curriculum units and includes the table of contents and a sample lesson from each. See direct links for purchasing each unit below and at the bottom of each page on the website.
  
  
  

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NEW! Women, Power and Politics, is the latest online exhibition of the International Museum of Women. It showcases inspiring stories and images of historical and contemporary political women in provocative ways. It also connects women from different parts of the world, provoking dialogue. The exhibition will run from March 8 to December 31, 2008, in four languages. Lessons on its classroom use will appear in Fall, 2008.

Women of Courage: A Biography/Art Collaboration - activity demonstrating collaboration between university and highschool classes and the International Museum of Women (IMOW) to forward awareness of both historic and contemporary global women. Features sixteen student created biographies and protraits.

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We have recently published a new curriculum unit for Middle and Secondary School:

Women's Work in Industrial Revolutions
Primary Source Lessons From Europe & East Asia
by Lyn Reese

Table of Contents   Sample Activity   Place Order

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WOMEN IN WORLD HISTORY SERIES

NEW!  Women's Work in Industrial Revolutions  NEW!

Muslim World | Ancient Near East India | Political Women

SPINDLE STORIES SERIES

Ancient Egypt | Classical Athens | Roman Pompeii Renaissance Florence | Early Feudal England Tang Dynasty China | Precolumbain Guatemala | Early Feudal Japan African Songhay & Hausa Kingdoms | 16th Century Ottoman Turkey

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