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Women's History (Teaching with Historic Places)

Teaching with Historic Places (TwHP) uses historic places in National Parks and in the National Park Service's National Register of Historic Places to enliven history, social studies, geography, civics, and other subjects. TwHP has created a variety of products and activities that help teachers bring historic places into the classroom.

Here you’ll find place-based educational resources relating to women's history. Discover more resources at the Teaching with Historic Places homepage.

Lesson Plans

  • Photo of exterior of brick house.

    The Mary McLeod Bethune Council House

    Learn about Mary McLeod Bethune and how she promoted political and social change for African American women.

  • Group of suffragists picketing.

    Lafayette Park

    Learn how a group of determined women selected Lafayette Park, across from the White House, to demonstrate for their right to vote.

  • Photo of a brick three story house.

    The Mary Ann Shadd Cary House

    Follow the footsteps a free African American woman who defied an oppressive culture and broke barriers in education.

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    Last updated: August 4, 2021