American Women, American Citizens: 1920-1948

FAIN: ES-267170-19

New York Historical Society (New York, NY 10024-5152)
Leslie Hayes (Project Director: February 2019 to present)
Nicholas A. Juravich (Co Project Director: August 2019 to present)

A two-week institute for 30 teachers on women's history in the United States between 1920 and 1948.

This project comprises a two-week professional development institute for 30 school teachers and 13 scholars in the field of women's history in July 2020. This conference will empower teachers to incorporate the voices of a diverse range of women into their instruction on early-to-mid 20th century United States history through interactive pedagogy workshops, lesson writing support, and dialogue with leading scholars in the field. Participants will deepen their content knowledge of US history in the 1920s, 30s, and 40s, with an emphasis on women; practice incorporating primary sources and secondary texts into their instruction; and reflect on how women’s history can and should be woven into the broader history curriculum for middle and high school students. Participants will have full access to N-YHS's library and museum collections, as well as to the expertise of our education staff.

Associated Products

Teacher lesson plans (Course or Curricular Material)
Title: Teacher lesson plans
Author: Program participants
Abstract: Participants in our NEH Summer Institutes for School Teachers—American Women at War (2017), American Women in the Revolutionary and Civil Wars (2019), and American Women, American Citizens: 1920-1948 (2020)—created lesson plans for the topics under study as their final project. All lesson plans were designed to address the needs of the target grade level and subject matter taught by participants. Teachers drew from academic scholarship, primary sources, and pedagogical techniques developed over the course of the Institute.
Year: 2021
Primary URL: http://: https://www.nyhistory.org/education/teacher-workshops/neh-summer-institute-for-school-teachers/participant-lessons
Primary URL Description: Digital database of teacher-generated lesson plans.
Audience: K - 12

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