Primary Source Learning: Women in U.S. History
Access ready-made primary source lessons and activities to learn how some incredible women throughout U.S. history helped advance the nation.
- Learning from the Source: Chicago Meatpackers & the Unions
- Learning from the Source: Perceptions & Roles of American Women
- Music and U.S. Reform History: Stand Up and Sing
- Primary Source Learning: Women Breaking Barriers
- Primary Source Learning: Women in the White House
- Primary Source Learning: Women’s Road to the Vote (woman suffrage teaching resources)
- Remember the Ladies: African-American Women and the Fight for Rights
- Women in the Civil War: Ladies, Contraband and Spies
Check out these guided primary source analysis activities.
- Concerning the American Girl
- Does the Camera Ever Lie?
- Grandma’s Toilet
- The Poem
- Round the World with Nellie Bly
- For United America, YWCA
- Washington Chapter 1917
- When Women are Jurors
- Woman and Child
- Woman fingerprinted
- The Woman Whom Justice Brewer Would Make Mayor
- Woman’s Work
- Women Land Ownership & the World Economy
- Women’s Rights National Historical Park
Next, create your own primary source activities focused on women’s history.