Women and the American Story Women & the American Story (WAMS), our brand-new, completely free curriculum website, launched on International Women’s Day. After over a year of research, archival treasure hunting, writing, workshopping with teachers, and lesson piloting, we’re thrilled to share the first two units of the ten-unit curriculum project with the world. As…

What can a painting or photograph tell us about life long ago? What clues can sculpture or pottery give us about the society in which it was created? How can we engage students in women’s history by incorporating hands-on art-making into the K-12 curriculum? These are questions that I pose consistently in my daily work…

Editor’s note: This post contains frank discussions of sexual violence.  Giving Teachers the Resources They Need When I first began research for the Early Encounters, 1492-1734 unit of our Women and the American Story curriculum guide, I knew that to write truthfully about the experiences of women in colonial America, I had to include frank discussions of…

To mark the end of summer, we celebrated Women’s Equality Day (August 26) at the New-York Historical Society with discounted entry and a guide to our diverse array of exhibitions featuring women’s history on all four floors of our museum. As we forge ahead into fall, the excitement continues with new exhibitions opening and a…

Historians don’t usually rave about the Early Colonial Period (1500-1700) as a time of great creative output, so you can imagine our surprise when we encountered the work of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (November 12, 1651 – April 17, 1695) while researching and writing the Early Encounters unit of Women and the American…