The
National Women’s History Museum’s website, www.nwhm.org,
is a wonderful place to find information about how of the impact of yesterday’s
women has changed our world today. Even if you are not necessarily majoring or minoring in political science, you may be able to find information on a woman that impacted your own interest are academic field. For this class, you can
find a wealth of information regarding the roles and impact of women in
government and politics.
Several
online exhibits are featured on the site, including an exhibit focused on first
women’s movement, which is ideal for the time period we are discussing now in
class. If
you click on the woman's name highlighted on the left of the exhibit
panel, you can find short but insightful biographies about them and
events in which they participated. This CyberExhibit was developed by Jeanne Schramm and is called: This
Isn’t Right!: Women Reform Leaders from 1847-1952.
The exhibit is broken down nicely and features several cool artifacts. (http://www.nwhm.org/online-exhibits/reform/index.html)
The exhibit depicts women with the honorable bravery
and intellectual heroism to share their own views and speak and do something
when they were encouraged to remain silent and inactive. Their impact was not
only felt in the United States, but the world over.
The exhibit shares several documents from Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Lucretia Mott (the “badass” you remember from one of our peer’s suffragette presentation). There is also a section focusing on Sojourner Truth, who became an unforgettable activist against both slavery and gender inequality. Also mentioned is Helen Keller, who helped to alter the way society looks at people with disabilities despite being both deaf and blind. And, those are just a few of the people and events portrayed by this exhibit.
The exhibit shares several documents from Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Lucretia Mott (the “badass” you remember from one of our peer’s suffragette presentation). There is also a section focusing on Sojourner Truth, who became an unforgettable activist against both slavery and gender inequality. Also mentioned is Helen Keller, who helped to alter the way society looks at people with disabilities despite being both deaf and blind. And, those are just a few of the people and events portrayed by this exhibit.
I think it’s really cool to be able to examine
exhibits like these right from your home and it’s free! Who doesn’t love free
stuff? So please take some time to check out this exhibit at http://www.nwhm.org/online-exhibits/reform/index.html.
“Alone
we can do so little; together we can do so much.” -Helen Keller
Loved this! I love that today's technology allows us the opportunity to visit exhibits all over the world from the comfort of our homes. This is exhibit was pretty neat. Although I must admit I never really knew Helen Keller was such an activist.
ReplyDeleteI agree, and this site offers so many exhibits that are constantly being added to or changed. The site provides information about a wide variety of individuals, from women who participated in the earliest suffrage movement to women who are influential in their own field. I think activists are more than just people who participate in particular events for a specific cause, but some are simply people that lead by example.
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