[Detail] Rural school near Milton, North Dakota, 1913
Lesson Preparation
Preparation: Teacher planning (one - two planning periods)
Each group of students is provided a packet of primary source information. These packets will provide information on a certain category of Nineteenth Century woman.
Consult these directions for creating the primary source packets for each category of woman.
Categories:
- Educated Free Black Woman from the North
- Plantation Mistress
- Slave Experience
- Abolitionist (northern and southern)
- Mill Girl in North
- Woman Moving West
Resources
- African American Odyssey
- African American Perspective: Pamphlets from the Daniel A. P. Murray Collection, 1818-1907
- America’s First Look into the Camera: Daguerreotype Portraits and Views, 1839-1864
- American Life Histories: Manuscripts from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1940
- An American Time Capsule: Three Centuries of Broadsides and Other Printed Ephemera
- Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938
- By Popular Demand: "Votes for Women" Suffrage Pictures, 1850-1920
- By Popular Demand: Portraits of the Presidents and First Ladies, 1789 to the Present
- First Person Narratives of the American South, 1860-1920
- Map Collections: 1500-2003
- Selected Civil War Photographs
- Votes for Women: Selections from the National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection, 1848-1921
