Women & the American Story (WAMS) is a free curriculum website from the New-York Historical Society. WAMS connects educators with classroom resources that illuminate diverse women’s contributions to the American past. We will launch two units per year until the project is complete in 2022.

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18TH C.

Free & Equal?

Elizabeth Freeman’s court case set the legal precedent to abolish slavery in Massachusetts.

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20TH C.


Empowered Fashion


Short skirts and short hair were a direct rebellion against traditional ideals of womanhood in the 1920s.

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18TH C.

BROADSIDE

A printed piece of paper; often used as a flyer or poster. Broadsides were a popular way to circulate information during the American Revolution. 

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19TH C.


Arts integration in the social studies classroom.

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20TH C.


A Hollywood Starlet


Anna May Wong achieved international fame as a film actor despite racism and stereotyping against Chinese Americans.

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18TH C.


Cultivating
silk worms
in colonial
Pennsylvania. 

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17TH C.


The court is in session!


A group of native market women, the gateras, took Spanish colonists to court over disputed rights to sell goods in the streets of colonial Quito.

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18TH C.


The Public Universal Friend

The story of a nonbinary and nonconforming preacher in colonial New England who built a community of followers during the First Great Awakening.

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Did you know?


The Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) was a branch of the Army during WWII. 

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