Category: Women in History
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Pharaoh Queens
This is the final installment in my Queens of Africa series. To catch up on the others first click the links below: Kandakes of Kush Queens of Ethiopia Queens of Madagascar Warrior and Rain Queens Queens of Africa: Full Bundle Like the other resources before, Pharaoh Queens is a collection of short reads that are…
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Tru’ng Sisters: A TpT Resource Blog
Adding more women to your world history or Asian history classes can be difficult for many of us because we studied a European-centric curriculum. I knew I wanted to add more women to my world history curriculum but the list of Asian women was limited to two names: Empress Wu and Dowager Empress Cixi. Both…
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Women’s History Month: A list of women to teach this month
My problem with a lot of women’s history month lessons that are built for elementary-aged students is that they tend to highlight women who worked rather than women in history. This sounds divisive but I want students to know that women made history, led revolts, changed nations, fought in wars, and all the other things…
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Queens of Madagascar
Madagascar has a long history of queen regnants and was a country of unrelenting materialism. Until the Europeans arrived anyway. Once the Europeans set their sights on Madagascar, they infused their code of paternalism and a great social shift occurred. The women of Madagascar fought changing gender roles and expectations while at the same time…
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Queens of Ethiopia
Learning about the history of Ethiopia and the role they played in Africa is usually contained to their adoption of Christianity. I was ignorant of the role of women in Ethiopia before I set out to create a series about the queens of Africa. However, this might be my favorite resource in the entire series…
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Kandakes of Kush: Part of the Queens of Africa Series
The Kandakes of Kush had to handle the pressure from their northern neighbor, the Ancient Egyptians while they maintained their prominence on the African continent. Combine those pressures with an impending patriarchal shift and you have a group of amazing women. We don’t know a lot about them. We know when some of them ruled…
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Tru’ng Sisters Short Read
Until it became my mission to discovery women to add to Asian curriculum I had never heard of the Tru’ng Sisters. Their story was one of my favorites that I found. The Tru’ng Sisters are historical icons in Vietnam. Their bravely fought the invading Han Chinese, keeping them out of Vietnam for a short time.…
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Japanese Women’s History Short Reads
It shouldn’t be a surprise anymore that history leaves women out of the conversation. The problem is only worse for American students when they study world or Asian history because the already women-deprived curriculum leaves them out almost entirely. Japanese history in world history, for American students, does just that. The only mention of women…
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Empress Wu Short Read
Empress Wu is the only woman to sit on the throne in all of Chinese history yet American history classes ignore her. Oh, they mention her. How can they not? By examining several American world history textbooks however she never gets more than a paragraph and the tone in which they discuss her is one…
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Agrippina the Younger: A New Take
Agrippina the Younger will never, ever have a different narrative. Contemporary historians hated her guts and every historian after believed her to be a truly horrid human being because of the writings of the contemporary historians. The best she can hope for is what I am going to write about her and unfortunately, my readership…
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Queen Seondeok Short Read
Queen Seondeok was Queen regnant of Silla, one of the Three Kingdoms of Korea. She is also ignored in Asian history classes and world history classes (at least here in the US) and that needs to be corrected. Queen Seondeok lived from c. 595-610 – 647 and ruled Silla for 15 years. She is remembered…
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Chinese Women’s History Short Reads
I don’t want to contribute to the deletion of women from history and that is certainly true when teaching Asian history. Unfortunately, for many reasons, the American resources that schools often use, whether it is for Asian history or world history, never include more than one woman, Wu Zetian, the only woman to rule China.…
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Inventors Week: Which Women Do We Include?
A small list of women inventors to add to your inventors week curriculum.
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History Needs More Women: Ways to Encourage Girls to Study History
We need to teach more about women in order to get more women to become historians.
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TpT Resources for Women’s History Month
Celebrate Women’s History Month with my collection of women-driven history resources.
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Defamed by History: The Isabella and Cersei Connection
Defamed by History: The Isabella and Cersei Connection
Integrated Social Studies 