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WAPUSH: Period 6: World Wars & the Early Cold War 1914-1970s
Resources for students and teachers interested in the creation of an AP Women's U.S. History course
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Period 1: Indigenous Societies, Origins-1491
Period 2: Colonization and Impact on Women’s Experiences (1492-1775)
Period 3: American Independence and Women in the Early Republic (1776-1848)
Period 4: Seneca Falls, Civil War, and Reconstruction, 1848-1876
Period 5: Inequality and reform in the Gilded Age & Progressive Era, 1877-1913
Period 6: World Wars & the Early Cold War 1914-1970s
Period 7: The Women’s Liberation Movement, 1963-1973
Period 8: Feminist Waves & the Backlash, 1973-1991
Period 9: Contemporary Women's Issues, 1970-Present
6.1: Contextualizing Period 6
The Contested Meaning of Women's Equality
Erika Bachiochi
Ms. Magazine: "Love Among the Literati: The Bittersweet Affair of Josephine Herbst and Maxwell Anderson"
An article by Elinor Langer about a lost woman of history, Josephine Herbst. It was published in Ms. Magazine in July 1984
Primary Sources on Women and Technology
Library of Congress
A Timeline of Contraception
American Experience
6.2: Women's suffrage movement
"The Meaning of Women's Suffrage" by Dr. Mabel Ping-Hua Lee
National Park Service
"The Night of Terror"
Library of Congress
Biography of Alice Paul
National Park Service
Circus Women and the Suffrage Movement
American Experience
The Missouri History Museum tells the story of the fight for suffrage in St. Louis
Petition from the Women of Georgia Protesting the Women's Suffrage Amendment
Docs Teach
WAPUSH Interview with Dr. Erin Costello Wecker
Dr. Erin Costello Wecker is a professor of Irish Studies and English. In this interview she talks about her research on suffragist Kate Kennedy.
WAPUSH Interview with Dr. Wendy Rouse
Dr. Wendy Rouse is an expert on suffragists in the progressive era
6.3: Citizenship and immigration
6.4: Women's activism in "the doldrums"
BETRAYED: POWER OF THE PRESS
Surviving an American Concentration Camp
Elizabeth Dilling
Spartacus Educational
The History and Impact of the Minute Women of the U.S.A.
Texas State Historical Society
My Life as a Political Prisoner
Elizabeth Gurley Flynn
National Legion of Mothers ceremony
New York Public Library
Rose Schneiderman
Jewish Women's Archive
Survival in the Doldrums: The American Women's Rights Movement, 1945 to the 1960s
Leila Reupp and Verta A. Taylor
Women of Industrial Workers in the World (I.W.W.)
6.5: Early steps towards the Equal Rights Amendment
History of the Equal Rights Amendment
Alice Paul Center for Gender Justice
WAPUSH Interview with Zoe Nicholson
Zoe Nicholson has been a life long advocate for social justice and is an historian of Alice Paul.
6.6: World War I and pacifism
Inez Milholland
National Park Service
Life Story: Jeannette Rankin (1880-1973)
Women and the American Story, New York Historical Society
Women's International League of Peace and Freedom
6.7: Women's health
Buck v. Bell
Dickinson-Belskie Collection, 1939-2007
Harvard, Center for the History of Medicine
Dr. Florence Rena Sabin
Involuntary Sterilization of Native American Women in the United Involuntary Sterilization of Native American Women in the United States: A Legal Approach
Genesis M. Agosto, University of Nebraska College of Law
The Long Shadow of Eugenics
New York Times
Tracing One Package -- The Case that Legalized Birth Control
Margaret Sanger Papers Project
6.8: World War II
Rosie the Riveter Museum
National Park Service
Never Again is Now
Japanese American Internment
Library of Congress
"Two Gun" Bessie enters Dies Committee hearing
Library of Congress
Dorothea Lange Photos Lead Historians to Japanese Camp Survivors
KQED
6.9: Worker's rights
Women and Work After World War II
Post War
Women and the American Story, New York Historical Society
History of the Women's Bureau
Gains and losses for women after WWII
6.10: The Cold War
A “New Freedom Movement of Negro Women”: Sojourning for Truth, Justice, and Human Rights during the Early Cold War
Eric McDuffie
6.11: Founding figures of period 6
Crystal Eastman, "Now We Can Begin"
American YAWP
Grace Cowardin Dammann, RSCJ (1930-1945)
Manhattanville College (run by the RSCJ)
Life Story: Christine Jorgensen (1926-1989)
Women and the American Story, Hew York Historical Society
Life Story: Jovita Idar Juárez (1885–1946)
Women and the American Story, New York Historical Society
WAPUSH Interview with Eleanor Smeal
Eleanor Smeal has been active in the women's movement for over fifty years. She has worked as a leader in the National Organization for Women and the Feminist Majority Foundation.
Who is Pauli Murray?
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