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Readng Through History: The Salem Witch Trials

For Students 9th - 10th
This video provides a brief introduction to the Salem Witch Trials which accused several local women of witchcraft in 1692. [7:13]
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Pbs: American Experience: A Midwife's Tale

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This PBS series episode from American Experience entitled "A Midwife's Tale" features a dramatic film based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning story about a woman named Martha Ballard, a midwife and mother living in the wilds of Maine during...
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Pbs Learning Media: Crash Course World History: Japan in the Heian Period and Cultural History

For Students 9th - 10th
Join host John Green to learn about what westerners call the middle ages and the lives of the aristocracy - in Japan. The Heian period in Japan lasted from 794 CE to 1185 CE, and it was an interesting time in Japan. Rather than being...
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Pbs Learning Media: Crash Course World History: Mansa Musa and Islam in Africa

For Students 9th - 10th
John Green teaches you about Sub-Saharan Africa! So, what exactly was going on there? It turns out, it was a lot of trade, converting to Islam, visits from Ibn Battuta, trade, beautiful women, trade, some impressive architecture, and...
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Pbs Learning Media: Shugufa: Struggle to Learn: Wide Angle

For Students 9th - 10th
Follow Shugufa, a 13-year-old Afghani girl, and her female classmates' struggle to overcome their school's shortcomings and attain an education in the midst of increasing Taliban efforts to deny education to women. [3:25]
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Pbs: Wyoming Voices: Wyoming Day (Grades K 5)

For Students K - 1st Standards
Students will learn about Wyoming's territorial history, statehood, constitution, and women's rights, in celebration of Wyoming Day.
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Crash Course

Crash Course World History #16: Mansa Musa and Islam in Africa

For Students 9th - 10th
In this Crash Course video, John Green teaches you about Sub-Saharan Africa! So, what exactly was going on there? It turns out, it was a lot of trade, converting to Islam, visits from Ibn Battuta, trade, beautiful women, trade, some...
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Reading Rockets

Reading Rockets: Author Interviews: Tanya Lee Stone

For Students 1st - 9th
Tanya Lee Stone writes a little bit of everything - science, history, biography, poetry, and fiction - for kids and teens. She's written middle grades biographies of pioneering women in the NASA space program, Amelia Earhart, and Ella...
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Pbs Learning Media: Empowerment

For Students 9th - 10th
This video from Women, War & Peace demonstrates the power of women and suggests that in today's world, especially with the evolution of communication, the presence of women at peace talks is necessary and inevitable. [7:44]
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Tom Richey

Tom Richey: John Stuart Mill: An Introduction

For Students 9th - 10th
Brief video introducing the work of 19th Century English philosopher, John Stuart Mill, in which Tom Richey provides an overview of Mill's books, On Liberty, Utilitarianism, and The Subjection of Women. [8:23]
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Pbs: City of Gold: The Story of South Pass City: Political Pioneers

For Students 3rd - 5th
Learn about the key role South Pass City played in helping Wyoming become the first territory or state to allow women the right to vote and hold public office.
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Pbs Learning Media: Digital Activism: shayfeen.com Film Module

For Students 9th - 10th
This module examines the use of digital technology to further civic engagement in the face of repression. Shayfeen.com activists support the brave judges who step forward and ask for an investigation of election abuses. The women of...
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Niki De Saint Phalle

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about artist Niki de Saint Phalle, and how Pop art was a vehicle for international and women artists to disrupt an art history that they saw as belonging to mostly male artists in a US-UK context. [3:55]
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Reading Rockets

Reading Rockets: Author Interviews: Laurie Halse Anderson

For Students 1st - 7th
Laurie Halse Anderson is a compelling writer who plays with form and style to present individuals from the inside. Her playful side emerges when she looks at real history and women who played a role in it. Anderson also has a particular...

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