National Women’s History Museum

Alexandria, Virginia, 22304

Last updated on August 14, 2024

Grant awarded by
TPS Eastern Region
Region
East
Organization Type
Non-profit Organization
Congressional District(s)
8
Fiscal Year Of First Grant
FY 2022 [10/01/21 - 09/30/22]
Contributing Organization(s)
Mercer University
Organization description

Founded in 1996, the National Women’s History Museum (NWHM) is an private non-profit dedicated to amplifying women’s history.

Project description

The National Women’s History Museum, a private non-profit dedicated to amplifying women’s history, is using Library of Congress primary sources to reinvigorate some of NWHM’s most well-used, free, and accessible resources: biographies, lesson plans, and educator workshops. NWHM sees a critical need for women’s history to be grounded in rigorous, accessible, vetted, and wide-ranging primary source evidence, and values the rich collections at the Library of Congress as a means of building trust in the interpretation and understanding of women’s history. Through this grant, NWHM is producing a new biography model for their compendium of biographies using TPS strategies and Library of Congress primary sources, and will begin republishing biographies under this new model. NWHM will host a special session of “For Educators, By Educators” using Library of Congress primary sources and TPS strategies; and finally, NWHM will host a series of educator workshops that focus on teaching women’s history using primary sources. NWHM is collaborating with Dr. Katherine Perrotta of Mercer University, Tifft College of Education, on this grant project.

TPS project focus
  • Curriculum
  • Teaching Materials
  • Webinars
  • Workshops
Content focus
  • Gender Studies
Audience
  • Activists
  • Administrators
  • Archivists
  • Artists
  • Classroom teachers
  • Community members
  • Curriculum coordinators
  • Homeschoolers
  • Librarians/Media specialists
  • Researchers
  • Students
  • Teacher candidates/Student teachers
  • University faculty
  • Writers
Level(s)
  • K-5
  • Pre-K - 2nd
  • 3 - 5
  • 6 - 8
  • 9 - 12
  • Adult learning
  • Undergraduate
  • Graduate
Population focus
  • Women and girls
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