Teaching the women's club movement in United States history.

From: The Social Studies | Date: January 1, 2002| Author: Woyshner, Christine | Copyright information

Those teaching women's history in the secondary classroom often emphasize women's formal political participation in the past, particularly their fight for suffrage. The quest for woman suffrage is now a curriculum staple, as teachers integrate women's history into the existing canon. Molly MacGregor, the director and cofounder of the National Women's History Project, recently expressed her delight in the fact that there is an advanced placement history question that addresses the s...

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