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Suffrage: The changing role of women: In this lesson, students use oral history excerpts and photographs to learn about the women's suffrage movement in the United States from a variety of perspectives.; Format: lesson plan (multiple pages)

The Misses Turner in Negro Songs: This program cover for the Misses Turner “in Negro Songs” contains a sepia photograph of two white women. One woman is wearing a floor-length, lacy, beaded black dress with a white underlay and corsage. She holds what appears to be a lyre. The...; Format: image/photograph

World War I propaganda posters: U.S. Government propaganda posters spelled out the reasons for American involvement in World War I and encouraged all Americans to help in the war effort.; Format: slideshow (multiple pages)

Fish market: In Northern and coastal Vietnam: Waterway settlements and Chinese influences, page 6; Women in Southeast Asia often work as food merchants in centralized outdoor markets where regional farm produce is collected for sale to surrounding town residents. Typically vendors selling similar items in adjacent spots are both cooperating and competing...; By Lorraine Aragon.

Women as merchants: In Contemporary life in Vietnam, page 9; Women throughout Southeast Asia regularly work in outdoor markets, both as preparers and sellers of food items. This woman, at an outdoor market in Hanoi, sells variously colored noodles from large trays. Noodle-making is a fine art in Vietnam, where ingredients...; By Lorraine Aragon.

Votes for Women: In North Carolina in the early 20th century, page 4.8; This poster, published by the North American Woman Suffrage Association, counters opponents arguments about why women shouldn’t be given the right to vote.; Format: poster/primary source

Women of the South in a changing society: In this lesson, students examine the lives of women in the south during the Civil War and focus particular attention on analyzing the historical stereotypes of women of the 19th-century.; Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 English Language Arts and Social Studies); By Cindy Mcpeters and Aletha Aldridge.

Peace returns to the earth: In The Ramayana, page 7.15; Women pick fruit in a fertile garden, as painted on a mural at the Emerald Buddha Temple. Four women move contentedly around a lush landscape with colorful flowers and ripe fruit growing around boulders. A woman on the right reaches over a boulder to pick...; By Lorraine Aragon.

Southern women trailblazers: The resources on this page are designed to help educators teach about the changing role of women in American society, particularly in the south. By engaging in these activities, students will not only learn about women considered to be trailblazers in their time, but they will also think critically about traditional gender roles, women's roles in politics, academics, and professions, and the contributions of women to society.; Format: lesson plan

Foundation of a diet: In Rice farming and rural life in Vietnam, page 1; Wherever rice will grow in Southeast Asia, it is grown. Rice is one of the most nutritious and protein-rich grains that humans have domesticated from wild plants. Here, a woman is selling rice in an outdoor market in Hanoi. The round woven basket in front...; By Lorraine Aragon.

Working in the fields: In Rice farming and rural life in Vietnam, page 5; Both men and women work in the wet-rice fields. Rural women living in highland Southeast Asia typically scale high mountains and do hard outdoor physical labor, which keeps them physically fit and strong. With one basket strapped at the waist and another larger...; By Lorraine Aragon.

Rama's regret: In The Ramayana, page 7.9; Rama sits on a riverbank with four women, trying to forget Sita, as portrayed on a mural at the Emerald Buddha Temple. Rama sits at the corner of a riverbank, holding a piece of food in his right hand and gazing out at the water. A young and beautiful woman...; By Lorraine Aragon.

Reading guide: Cherokee women: In Two worlds: Educator's guide, page 2.7; These questions will help to guide students' reading of "Cherokee Women" and encourage them to think critically about the text. The questions focus primarily on the Cherokee matrilineal kinship system and on the cultural differences between the Cherokee and the Europeans who arrived in the early 1700s.; Format: /lesson plan (grade 8 Social Studies); By Pauline S. Johnson.

World War I and the changing face of gender roles: In this lesson, students analyze oral histories in order to learn more about Progressivism and the impact of World War I and World War II on the role of women in the United States.; Format: lesson plan (grade 11–12 Social Studies); By Lee Adcock.

Ravana dies: In The Ramayana, page 6.9; In this mural detail at the Emerald Buddha Temple, both the women and Ravana are dressed in royal Siamese clothes and crowns painted with gold leaf paint. The long-haired and fair young women who sit on opposite sides of Ravana's body hold up their bent left...; By Lorraine Aragon.

Why We Oppose Votes for Men: In North Carolina in the early 20th century, page 4.6; Satirical column by Alice Duer Miller, challenging people opposed to women's suffrage. Includes historical commentary.; Format: poster/primary source

Women at a grain mill: Four women working in a local gasoline-powered mill. Grain sacks lie around including one in a bamboo basket -- called a doko -- by the window.; Format: image/photograph

Women and children western Nepal: Three young women wearing saris, a type of wrap dress, stand in front of a thatched-roof structure while children look on in the background. The woman on the left is smoking a cigarette.; Format: image/photograph

4-H women inspecting bread: The background of this black and white photograph is of a brick building. In front of the building is a table covered with a cloth and loaves of many different kinds of bread. From behind the table, three 4-H club women inspect the bread as part of a 4-H food...; Format: image/photograph

Processing fish: In Northern and coastal Vietnam: Waterway settlements and Chinese influences, page 5; The three women are working with knives and baskets to sort and clean the fish. The wall behind them is the harbor's seawall.; By Lorraine Aragon.

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