A history of women's achievement in America
Volume 1
by Donna Mills, Ronald C. Meyer, Kayann Short, Tom Henwood, and Mark Reeder
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A history of women's achievement in America examines the 400-year history of American women's inspiring accomplishments and victories.
Making of a new world, 1621-1805. This program discusses how women helped found the English colonies; Anne Hutchinson and Anne Bradstreet; America's first black poet, Phillis Wheatley; Abigail Adams and Sacagawea.
Era of women's firsts, 1836-1851. This program discusses Juana Briones and the establishment of San Francisco; Mary Lynn and the foundation of Mount Holyoke, the first women's college; Susan Magoffin; Maria Mitchell, the first scientist to discover a comet with a telescope; Amelia Bloomer, the publisher of The Lily; and Sojourner Truth.
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"Accessing extra documents: This DVD has historical documents, timeline, blackline masters, teacher's guide and lesson plans that can be displayed on-screen or printed out. To access these files, put this DVD in a computer with a DVD player. Quit the DVD software if it starts to play the disc. Navigate to this DVD and look in the folders labeled 'Extras.' The 'Documents' folder had PDF files. To view the files you must have Adobe Acrobat Reader. If you do not have Acrobat Reader, you can download a copy for free a www.adobe.com. Double click on the files to open them"--Container insert.
DVD extras: Teacher guides and lesson plans; photo gallery; timeline; historical documents; blackline master quizzes.
Music, David Arkenstone ; editor, Michael Ramsey.
Presenter: Donna Mills.
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Soundtrack in English with subtitles in English and Spanish. Closed-captioned.
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A history of women's achievement in America examines the 400-year history of American women's inspiring accomplishments and victories.
Women begin to transform themselves, 1916-1935. This program discusses the first woman elected to the U.S. Congress, Jeannette Rankin; women gaining the right to vote; Edith Wharton, Margaret Mead, Georgia O'Keeffe, Amelia Earhart, and Mary McLeod Bethune.
America becomes a super power, 1936-1956. This program discusses Eleanor Roosevelt, Rosie the riveter, Babe Didrikson, Margaret Chase Smith, Gwendolyn Books, Rosa Parks, and Althea Gibson.
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