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World Herstory: A History of the World's Women and Lesson Plans for the Classroom book cover

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World Herstory A History of the World's Women and Lesson Plans for the Classroom

Edited By Kelsie Brook Eckert, Jaqui Nelson, Nancy Locklin-Sofer, Chloe Sharma, Lauren Connolly, Barbara L. Tischler Copyright 2026
458 Pages 397 B/W Illustrations
by Eye On Education

458 Pages 397 B/W Illustrations
by Eye On Education

This book is a survey of world history that explores diverse women’s and gender history at the secondary reading level. With sample lesson plans and teaching activities, this guide aligns with curriculum and content already taught in secondary schools. The book spans prehistory to the end of the 20th century, highlighting the lives of women in every region of the world, elite rulers and peasant... Read more

1. Introduction: To 15,000 Before Gendered Constructs  2. To 15,000 Mother Earth and Great Goddesses?  3. 10,000 BCE The Agricultural Revolution: A Great Mistake?  4. 4,000-1000 BCE Women in the First City States  5. 800-400 BCE European Founding Myths and Women’s Place  6. 800-300 BCE Asian Philosophies and Women’s Place  7. 100 BCE – 100 CE Women and the Roman Empire  8. 100 BCE – 100 CE Women and the Han Empire  9. One Male God Over Women  10. 100-500 Women Travelers and Merchants on the Silk Roads  11. 300-900 The Age of Queens and Empresses  12. 700-1200 The Golden Age of Islam  13. 1000-1500 Women and Feudalism in Europe and Japan  14. 900-1200 Women Crusaders and Stabilizers  15. 1200-1400 Mongol Women in a Pastoral World  16. 1300-1500 Renaissance and Ottoman Women Artists and Thinkers  17. 1000-1600 Gender Dynamis in the New Worlds  18. 1000-1600 Women Explorers and Leaders  19. 1450-1600 Women and the Reformation  20. 1500-1600 Encounters in the New World  21. 1500-1600 Gender, Sexuality, and the Slave Trade  22. 1700-1850 The Enlightenment and Women  23. 1600-1850 Cloistered Women in Asia  24. 1850-1950 Women’s Industrial Revolution  25. 1850-1950 Women’s Lives Under Imperialism  26. 1900-1930 Women’s Worlds in Collision  27. 1930-1950 Women and Global War  28. 1950-1990 Decolonizing Women  29. 1950-1980 Transnational Feminism

Biography

Kelsie Brook Eckert is a multi-award-winning history teacher and the founder and Executive Director of the Remedial Herstory Project and the Coordinator of Social Studies Education at Plymouth State University.

Jacqui Nelson is the Director of Research at the Remedial Herstory Project and teaching lecturer at Plymouth State University.

Nancy Locklin-Sofer is a Professor of History at Maryville College. Locklin-Sofer is a specialist in pre-modern Europe, especially France.

Chloe Sharma is a PhD Candidate in Religious Studies at Edinburgh University and a Board Member for the Remedial Herstory Project.

Barbara L. Tischler is a teacher, professor and author and a Board Member at the Remedial Herstory Project.

Lauren Connolly is a high school history teacher and the Director of Professional Development at the Remedial Herstory Project.

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