History

Women's history was one of the first disciplines to arise out of the contemporary feminist movement. As early as 1969 historians began to examine women's lives and to discover that women had been active participants and leaders in history. Feminist historians began to move beyond contribution history. Women's history caucuses and organizations have arisen at the regional and national levels. These organizations provide advocacy for women in the profession, promote women's history scholarship, and publish women's history materials. Contribution history has tended to show women on the home front in wars, in the colonial family, and in organizations. Teacher Resources also includes two sections: biographical and bibliographic tools and current books by feminist historians that provide teachers with the classic works in women's history and some of the most recent research in the field. Many of the books are exciting reading because of the new ideas about women, new ways of looking at history, and new resources for finding women.