Teaching women’s history
Posted March 8, 2010 · by David · in Bulletin board
In designing our digital textbook for North Carolina history, we didn’t make special modules or chapters on women’s history, because we don’t see women’s history as a special topic or something you can tack on to your curriculum. Women are half the population. Always have been. So you’ll find primary sources by and about women throughout every section of the textbook.
As with any other topic, though, you can quickly find pages that explicitly deal with women and women’s issues. Go to the front page of the textbook collection, then do one of two things:
- In the search form, select women from the theme menu, and click search.
- Click women in the tag cloud at the bottom of the page.
Both will take you to a listing of all our content, multimedia, and lesson plans about women in North Carolina history. Want to narrow it down? Click find only text at the top of the page to get just text-based resources.
Nearly all of that content can be used to study broader U.S. history as well.
You can also find a wide range of women’s history resources for all grade levels — lesson plans, websites, and student readings — in our women’s history collection guide.
Love the fisrt paragraph above! Yes, half the population. They are absolutely part of history, and not just some add-on to be studied in March. But still, glad the digital text provides a means to search for the topic.