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March 2006 |
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LEGEND: (W) = Website Feature (LP) = Lesson Plan |
Women's History Month
| 1 | WednesdayWho Were the Foremothers of Women’s Equality? (LP) |
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| 2 | ThursdayScripting the Past: Exploring Women's History Through Film (LP) |
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| 3 | FridayVoting Rights for Women: Pro- and Anti-Suffrage (LP) |
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| 4 | Saturday1917 Peace activist & suffragist Jeanette Rankin first woman elected to US House of RepresentativesWomen & Social Movement in US 1775-1940 (W) |
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| 5 | Sunday |
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| 6 | Monday1806 Born—British poet Elizabeth Barrett BrowningVictorian Web (W) 1857 Dred Scott decision, U.S. Supreme Court Oyez, Oyez, Oyez (W) |
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| 7 | TuesdayCivil rights march, Selma to Montgomery, Alabama 1965Ordinary People, Ordinary Places: The Civil Rights Movement (LP) |
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| 8 | WednesdayKate Chopin's The Awakening: No Choice but Under? (LP) |
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| 9 | Thursday1854 Born—Hallie Quinn Brown, women's right activistCultural Change (LP) |
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| 10 | Friday1913 Death of Harriet Tubman, Underground Railroad conductor who rescued more than 300 of her people from slaverySpirituals (LP) |
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| 11 | Saturday |
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| 12 | Sunday1993—Janet Reno becomes first woman US Attorney GeneralWomen’s Equality: Changing Attitudes and Beliefs (LP) |
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| 13 | Monday1907 Stock market plunges—economic depression beginsWorth a Thousand Words: Depression-Era Photographs (LP) |
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| 14 | TuesdayAmerican Memory:Women Pioneers in American Memory—Suffrage (W) |
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| 15 | WednesdayWomen’s Suffrage: Why the West First? (LP) |
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| 16 | ThursdayPioneer Values in Willa Cather's My Antonia (LP) |
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| 17 | Friday1431—Last day of Joan of Arc's examination at her trial at Rouen, France.Witnesses to Joan of Arc and The Hundred Years' War (LP) |
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| 18 | Saturday |
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| 19 | Sunday |
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| 20 | Monday1852 Harriet Beecher Stowe, White abolitionist, publishes Uncle Tom's CabinUncle Tom's Cabin & American Culture (W) |
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| 21 | TuesdayCharlotte Perkins Gilman's “The Yellow Wall-paper”—The “New Woman” (LP) |
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| 22 | WednesdayCharlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wall-paper”—Writing Women (LP) |
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| 23 | Thursday1940 Born—Ghanaian writer Ama Ata AidooWomen in Africa: Tradition and Change (LP) |
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| 24 | FridayScribbling Women (W) |
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| 25 | Saturday1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in New York City kills 146 immigrant women workersNew Deal Network (W) |
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| 26 | Sunday1874 Born—Robert FrostPoems That Tell a Story: Narrative and Persona in the Poetry of Robert Frost (LP) |
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| 27 | Monday1912 First Lady Helen Taft and Viscountess Chinda, wife of the Japanese ambassador, plant first cherry trees in Washington, DCWomen in the White House (LP) |
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| 28 | TuesdayNational First Ladies Library (W) |
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| 29 | WednesdayVictorian Women Writers Project (W) |
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| 30 | ThursdayU.S. Women's History Workshop (W) |
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| 31 | Friday1776 Abigail Adams wrote her famous "Remember the ladies" letter to her husband, John, urging him to include women in the US ConstitutionRemember the Ladies (LP) |
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