Women’s history is American history. Too often, though, it is the left-out part, appearing only now and then in familiar profiles and at predictable high points. But women, despite legal and cultural barriers, have been actively engaged in every phase of the nation’s history. Some were firebrands, some were intellectuals, and some were ordinary people just going about their lives.
Women & the American Story, or WAMS for short, is the educators’ companion to the New-York Historical Society’s Center for Women’s History, addressing a difficulty that teachers have long encountered in their classrooms: the scarcity of material to bring women’s stories into the mainstream history curriculum.
From women’s suffrage and the formation of labor unions, to Japanese internment and a city school boycott, the website companion to the Chicago History Museum’s Facing Freedom in America exhibition highlights some of the ways Americans have struggled over the true meaning of freedom.
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