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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)
- 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.
- 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 of the South in a changing society
- This lesson examines the lives of women in Southern Appalachia and other areas of the south during the Civil War and focuses particular attention on analyzing the historical stereotypes of women of the 19th-century.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 11 English Language Arts)
- By Cindy Mcpeters and Aletha Aldridge.
- Women working
- In Rice farming and rural life in Vietnam, page 21
- The bright green rice plants in the field are still young and unripe. Note, again, the power lines running in the background.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Women processing plates of fish on tables at fish market in Hoi An
- Dozens of women are busy processing plates of fish on long wooden tables at a fish market in Hoi An. Both young and old women work here. Most wear conical sunhats and casual work clothes, including loose blouses and pants.
- Format: image/photograph
- 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.
- Protection from the sun
- In Rice farming and rural life in Vietnam, page 6
- Rural women, men, and children throughout Southeast Asia commonly weave their own hats, sleeping mats, and baskets from a variety of palm leaf, bamboo, and rattan fibers. Mountain groups or highlanders are less involved in the national cash economy (often...
- By Lorraine Aragon.
- Women at work on a bomber, 1942
- Format: image/photograph
- Letter of April 7, 1939
- In Tobacco bag stringing: Life and labor in the Depression, page 1.5
- MORSE BAG COMPANY East Bend, North Carolina. April 7, 1939. Mr. Sherlock Bronson, Richmond, Virginia. Dear Sir: In compliance with your request of March 28th, I am glad to give you an idea of my experience in working with tobacco bags. My mother and father,...
- Two Balinese women walking with baskets of soil on their heads
- Two Balinese women walk in single file carrying baskets of soil on their heads. The woman in front uses her right hand to stabilize her load, while using her left hand to shield her eyes from strong sunlight. She is wearing a blue T-shirt and a brown skirt....
- Format: image/photograph
- Overhead view of three women processing fish catch at Cat Ba harbor
- This overhead view shows three women processing large piles of small fish in the shallow water by the seawall at Cat Ba harbor. The three women are working with knives and baskets besides hundreds of silver fish, which they probably are sorting and cleaning.
- Format: image/photograph
- Six women in purple jackets carry offerings to cremation grounds
- Six women in long batik skirts and purple jackets, indicating their relationship to the deceased, carry offerings to cremation grounds. The women balance the bowls of offerings on their heads as they pass through crowds of people attending the high-status...
- Format: image/photograph
- Two women with large baskets on their heads stop by wet-rice fields
- Two Balinese women with large round baskets on their heads stop on a road by flooded wet-rice fields and houses. The woman on the right crouches down in the road so that her basket can be adjusted by the woman standing on the left. The two women are walking...
- Format: image/photograph
- Let the women do the work
- This photograph appeared in Horace Kephart's 1913 book Our Southern Highlanders with the caption "Let the women do the work."
- Format: image/photograph
- Rice farming and rural life in Vietnam
- Photographs and text tell the story of rice and rural life in Southeast Asia, with an emphasis on the highlanders, or Montagnards.
- Format: slideshow (multiple pages)
- North Carolina women and the Progressive Movement
- This lesson includes primary sources from Documenting the American South specifically related to North Carolina women involved in reform movements characteristic of the Progressive era. For the most part, these documents detail women's work in education-related reform and describe the creation of schools for women in the state. They also demonstrate that, as was true in the rest of the nation, the progressive, female reformers of N.C. were segregated based on race and socio-economic status.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 11–12 Social Studies)
- By Meghan Mcglinn.
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