Enrichment Materials: Female Voices
These enrichment materials build upon concepts introduced in US History and Advanced US History courses. They incorporate and link perspectives of women throughout our nation's history.
Women’s rights in the Early Republic
Native American women & equality in politics
Women during the antebellum reform movement
The Cult of Domesticity & its role in the suffrage movement
Materials detailing the role of women in the Civil War
Photo of a group of girls playing basketball at school during Industrial Era
Document detailing the work of women in a boardinghouse
"African American Women and the 19th Amendment"
Photos from the Women’s Suffrage Movement
Women working in the Progressive Era
Lynching from the POV of a Black woman, Mary Church Terrell
Service records of women who served in the Women’s Royal Naval Service
Photograph of women grinding barrels of automatic 45s
Photograph of American Red Cross nurses
Women’s party campaign for equal rights
Photos detailing the struggle for women’s suffrage
The papers of Caroline Lockhart
Documentation of female veterans in WWII
Female journalists, broadcasters, and photographers in WWII
Being a young girl during wartime in America
Interview with Georgette Braga, a woman from New Jersey
Proclamation of the Delano Grape Warriors by Dolores Huerta
Women in the Civil Rights Movement
Women fighting for equality during the Era of Social Change