Featured Collection
Women They Talk About: Documenting Early Women Filmmakers with the American Film Institute
Women actively participated in shaping the nascent film industry of the early twentieth century, both as screen stars and behind the camera. But why is this history missing from our understanding of early Hollywood? A comprehensive catalog from the American Film Institute and their "Women They Talk About" project offers an opportunity to discover these forgotten stories and the powerful women who shaped the industry.
(National Endowment for the Humanities)
Image credit: Image credit: Promotional poster for silent film directed by Lois Weber. Image by Burton Rice for Bluebird Photoplays (Life time: pre-1925 publication of advertisement by defunct film company; expired copyright) - Original publication: The Moving Picture World (New York, N.Y.)
Selected Resources For Teachers
The Library of Congress 6Hide All
National Archives 3Hide All
National Endowment for the Humanities 34Hide All
- Teacher's Guide: Women's History in the United States
- 64 Parishes (a project of the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities)
-- resources on women's rights (Site supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities)
-- resources on women's suffrage (Site supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities) - Backstory: Shattering the Glass Ceiling
- Backstory: Women at Work
- Chronicling and Mapping the Women's Suffrage Movement
- Elizabeth Keckly (Site supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities)
- Eleanor Roosevelt and the Rise of Social Reform in the 1930's
- Elizabeth Murray Project (partnership with California State University, Long Beach
- Esperanza Rising: Learning Not to Be Afraid to Start Over
- Scripting the Past: Exploring Women's History Through Film
- Grassroots Perspectives on the Civil Rights Movement: Focus on Women
- The Helen Keller Archive: Access for All
- Hidden Figures: The People Behind the Story You Know
- In Her Shoes: Lois Weber and the Female Filmmakers Who Shaped Early Hollywood
- Learning Lab Collection: Dolores Huerta and the UFW
- Long Road to Freedom: Biddy Mason’s Remarkable Journey (Site supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities)
- Making the Team: Sports and Equality in American Sports
- Maya Angelou: A Phenomenal Woman
- New Mexico Humanities Council resources on women’s suffrage, (Site supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities)
- Project Vox: Amplifying the Voices of Early Modern Women Philosophers (partnership with Duke Univ.)
- Recovery Hub for American Women Writers (Site supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities)
- Remember the Ladies: The First Ladies
- Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz: The First Great Latin American Poet
- "Their Eyes Were Watching God": Folk Speech and Figurative Language
- Unladylike 2020 – collection of 26 animated documentaries about women who changed America. (Site supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities)
- Who Were the Foremothers of Women's Equality?
- Women and Revolution: In the Time of the Butterflies
- Women's Equality: Changing Attitudes and Beliefs
- Women's History Through Chronicling America
- Women's Worlds in Qajar Iran
- Wyoming Humanities resources, (Site supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities)
National Gallery of Art 7Hide All
- Browse online materials (PDFs, interactive lesson plans, and podcasts) and borrow free-loan resources (teaching packets, DVDs/VHS) on art by female artists at NGA Learning Resources.
- A Look at Judith Leyster
- Élisabeth-Louise Vigée Le Brun
- Georgia O’Keeffe
- Heroines & Social Media
- Mary Cassatt
- Women and Art