Driving excellence in humanities education

A More Perfect Union

History and Civics Materials for the nation's 250th Anniversary

Landmarks of American History & Culture

Resources for place-based teaching and research

Closer Reading

Activist Constellations: Recovering Black Women's Labor and Leadership
Lesson Plan

Chronicling and Mapping the Women's Suffrage Movement
Media Resource

Unladylike 2020: The Changemakers
Lesson Plan

In Her Shoes: Lois Weber and the Female Filmmakers Who Shaped Early Hollywood
Closer Reading

The Declaration of Sentiments by the Seneca Falls Conference (1848)
Media Resource

BackStory: You've Come A Long Way—A History of Women in Politics

Resources

for

Women's

History

Month

 

Image of a screenplay for a film.

Scripting the Past: Exploring Women's History Through Film

The Yellow Wall Paper by Charlotte Perkins

Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wall-paper"—Writing Women

Jackie Cochran, one of America's leading aviators

Women Aviators in World War II: "Fly Girls"

Abigail Adams

Remember the Ladies: The First Ladies

Eleanor Roosevelt in Arthurdale, West Virginia, 1933.

Lesson 5: Eleanor Roosevelt and the Rise of Social Reform in the 1930s

African American slaves using cotton gin, drawing by William L. Sheppard.

Lesson 5: Women's Lives Before the Civil War

NEH Connections

NEH programs, projects, and resources for educators

Media Resource

"Fill Up the Jails": Creative Protest and the Virtual Martin Luther King Project
Media Resource

Adiós Amor: The Search for Maria Moreno