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Instructional Video0:54
C-SPAN

On This Day: Prohibition

For Students 7th - Higher Ed Standards
Before Prohibition, America was literally awash in alcohol, according to one historian of the topic. When the Eighteenth Amendment was enacted, loopholes allowed Americans workarounds, such as the ability to make up to 250 gallons of...
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Instructional Video2:04
PBS

All-Female Enterprise

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Watch as a group of Palestinian widows who found themselves in a desperate situation with little education and few resources turn their lives around by creating an all female cooperative business enterprise.
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Instructional Video5:31
TED-Ed

How One Scientist Averted a National Health Crisis

For Students 6th - 12th Standards
Between 1957 and 1962, thousands of infants born in Canada, Great Britain, and Germany had serious deformities due to thalidomide, a drug marketed to pregnant women as a mild sleeping aid and to relieve pregnancy nausea. However, the...
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Instructional Video3:38
PBS

City of Gold: The Story of South Pass City | Political Pioneers

For Students 5th Standards
The Wyoming Territory was the first territory or state to pass legislation granting women the right to vote. A short video provides a brief history of the Wyoming Territory and details the contributions of the citizens of South Pass City...
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Instructional Video2:17
Biography

Susan B. Anthony - Abolitionist | Mini Bio

For Students 8th - 12th Standards
How did Susan B. Anthony change the course of history for women in the United States? Introduce the passionate work that both Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton put forth for women's rights and the suffrage movement in the early...
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Instructional Video9:27
C-SPAN

On This Day: Me Too Movement Takes Off

For Teachers 9th - Higher Ed Standards
Listen to the #MeToo stories from a movement that has shaped the lives of women in the twenty-first century. With a series of video clips from C-SPAN, pupils consider the genesis of the movement. Videos include discussion from the...
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Instructional Video3:46
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SciShow

Great Minds: Rosalind Franklin

For Students 9th - 12th
The first person to discover the structure of DNA is not the person who won the Nobel prize for the discovery. While we know Rosalind Franklin was the first to discover the structure of DNA, her work was shared with others who went on to...
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Instructional Video2:29
PBS

NAWSA Supports U.S. Entry into World War I | Carrie Chapman Catt

For Students 5th - 12th
Carrie Chapman Catt, an avowed pacifist, supported the entry of the United States into World War I. A short PBS video examines the motives and strategies behind Catt's decision, and the role it played in the ratification of the 19th...
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Instructional Video2:28
Biography

Sojourner Truth- Mini Biography

For Teachers 4th - 12th Standards
Young historians discover the history of a famed fugitive slave, abolitionist, and women's rights activist in this brief and engaging video on Sojourner Truth.
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Instructional Video
Macat

An Introduction to Saba Mahmood’s Politics of Piety

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Do traditional customs of Islam contradict western feminism? Explore this and more using a video summary of Saba Mahmood's Politics of Piety, part of an extensive playlist about the world's greatest ideas. It addresses a common...
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Instructional Video2:25
PBS

Griswold v. Connecticut

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
How have Supreme Court decisions affected privacy and women's rights? As part of a study of Griswold v. Connecticut, scholars watch a video, read provided background material about Estelle Griswold and Planned Parenthood, engage in class...
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Instructional Video5:31
TED-Ed

The Life, Legacy, and Assassination of an African Revolutionary

For Students 9th - 12th
The stormy political history of the African nation of Ghana provides the backdrop for a short video about Thomas Sankar, who in his four-year presidency, instituted changes that were adopted in other African nations, as well. Find out...
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Instructional Video14:51
Curated OER

French Revolution (Part 2)

For Students 7th - 12th
Interesting facts and historical anecdotes are peppered throughout this video, which covers the beginnings of the French Revolution of 1789. The narrator guides viewers through the timeline and events of the French Revolution with...
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Instructional Video4:55
PBS

Suffrage | Soldier and Citizen

For Students 5th - 12th
A short video explores the impact of World War I and the post-war Influenza pandemic on suffragists' efforts to gain support for the 19th amendment. Also included is information about the role of the Army Nurse Corps and the segregation...
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Instructional Video3:16
PBS

Belle Case La Follette: Ballots and Bloomers | Wisconsin Biographies

For Students 3rd - 8th
Belle Case La Follette is perhaps less well-known than other suffragists but an essential figure in the movement. A short video introduces this remarkable woman and shows how she could influence politics even though she did not have the...
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Instructional Video5:04
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TED-Ed

The Genius of Marie Curie

For Students 8th - 12th Standards
Can you name the only person to win two Nobel Prizes in two different sciences? After watching a short video on the life, discoveries, and accomplishments of Marie Curie, you can!
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Instructional Video7:56
The Great War

Edith Cavell - Not A Martyr But A Nurse

For Students 9th - Higher Ed Standards
Was British nurse Edith Cavell a spy? Just doing her job? A martyr and saint? Perhaps all of the above? Edith Cavell was executed by a hastily arranged firing squad for helping wounded British soldiers in German-occupied Belgium during...
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Instructional Video7:26
The Great War

Dancer, Lover, Spy - Mata Hari

For Students 9th - Higher Ed Standards
Femme fatale? German spy? French spy? Mata Hari's origin story and her espionage during World War I are clouded by the legends surrounding her. With more recently declassified documents, historians have a better understanding of her role...
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Instructional Video4:45
TED-Ed

Why Do Women Have Periods?

For Students 7th - 12th
The female body is an amazing thing. This short video explains the amazing cycle that has developed to ensure the continuation of life. Did you know that only monkeys, apes, bats, humans, and maybe elephant shrews menstruate? 
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Instructional Video2:34
National Geographic

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

For Students 6th - 12th Standards
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. not only paved the way for African American citizens' civil rights, he created an example for women's groups, Hispanic groups, and groups with disabilities to fight for their rights as well. Learn more with a...
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Instructional Video1:29
C-SPAN

On This Day: Sand Creek Massacre

For Students 7th - 12th Standards
The Sand Creek Massacre refers to the killing of hundreds of native peoples at the hands of federal troops. Today, the site is marked as a sacred spot by the National Parks Service. Young people consider the impact of the atrocity and...
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Instructional Video4:49
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TED-Ed

How One Journalist Risked Her Life to Hold Murderers Accountable

For Students 6th - 12th
A short video on Ida B. Wells introduces viewers to the work of this fearless investigative journalist whose articles about lynchings focused the country's attention on countless murders of African Americans.
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Instructional Video13:57
C-SPAN

On This Day: McCarthyism and the Red Scare

For Students 6th - Higher Ed Standards
Senator Joseph's McCarthy's claims that communists had infiltrated and threatened the American way of life set off a red scare in the 1950s—and those claims have influenced today's concepts of loyalty to country. Using video clips from...
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Instructional Video4:06
TED-Ed

Frida Kahlo: The Woman Behind the Legend

For Students 6th - 12th Standards
Frida Kahlo: Artist, political activist, champion of Mexican folk culture. Introduce your students to this amazing woman with a short video that details her life, her passions, and her vibrant paintings.

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