Census in Schools

Want to teach your students about the Census?

Census in Schools is a website designed to help students learn why the Census is important. There are lesson plans and other teaching material for teachers, fun activities for kids in grades K-5, and activities to teach kids in grades 6-12 about how the census "affects [their] world. "

Women Working, 1800-1930

The Harvard University Library has a wonderful collection focusing on women's role in the United States economy. With 500,000 digitized pages and images, Women Working, 1800-1930 can be browsed by genre (e.g. books, photographs, diaries - what I would call format) and subject. Terms and phrases can be searched in the catalog or the full text transcriptions of the digitized material.

The Teacher Resources section brings together primary resource materials organized into selected themes taught in social studies. Each theme contains featered sources with links to resources to explore further.

But my favorite part of this site is the Today's Diary Entries - selected diaries are opened to the current day's date for your reading pleasure. You can also page through the diaries if you don't want to wait.

A nice site for the study of Women's History or just to browse for fun. Who wouldn't enjoy reading The American frugal housewife : dedicated to those who are not ashamed of economy (1835) by Mrs. Child (Lydia Maria, not Julia).