Caveat Academy course · Grades 9 to 12

Women's History

How women shaped history and won their rights, from Hatshepsut and Christine de Pizan to Seneca Falls, the Nineteenth Amendment, the world wars, Title IX and the ERA debate, women leaders and human rights worldwide, and women in science, the arts and sport. You read the sources historians use and learn to question them, at your own pace, with a certificate at the end.

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Included with the Caveat Academy pass and Whole-school licenses. Or get it in the High school electives library, $119 for 66 items.

6 modules · 18 lessonsabout 13 hours$19

Six modules, eighteen lessons

Each module ends with a practice set that tracks mastery, an explain-it-back prompt, a short written response and a module exam. The final opens when every module is proficient; passing it earns a certificate with a verification code.

  1. Module 1: Recovering women's past

    Explain how historians recover women's past from diaries, census returns, court records and other sources, and analyze a source against the grain.

    • How historians study women's history
    • Women with power in the ancient and medieval worlds
    • Women and the age of revolutions
    about 2.1 h

  2. Module 2: Reform and the first women's rights movement

    Explain how reform movements, Seneca Falls and the post-Civil War split shaped the first women's rights movement in the United States.

    • Abolition, reform and women's public voice
    • Seneca Falls and the Declaration of Sentiments
    • The movement splits and the long campaign
    about 2.1 h

  3. Module 3: Work, reform and the vote

    Compare the strategies that won women's suffrage in the United States and other countries and evaluate who was still excluded after 1920.

    • Women's work in the industrial age
    • Winning the Nineteenth Amendment
    • Women's suffrage around the world
    about 2.1 h

  4. Module 4: War, work and equal rights in the twentieth century

    Analyze how the world wars, the laws of the 1960s and the debates of the 1970s, including Title IX and the ERA, changed women's work and rights.

    • Women and the world wars
    • New laws in the 1960s
    • The 1970s: Title IX, the ERA and a divided debate
    about 2.1 h

  5. Module 5: Women's rights around the world

    Compare women's roles in independence movements, as heads of government and in international human rights law.

    • Women in empire and independence movements
    • Women as heads of government
    • Women's rights as human rights
    about 2.1 h

  6. Module 6: Science, culture and doing women's history

    Evaluate women's contributions to science, the arts and sport and design a small women's history project using oral history, sourcing and corroboration.

    • Women in science and medicine
    • Women in the arts, sport and popular culture
    • Doing women's history yourself
    about 2.1 h

Try it before you start

This is how every lesson works: step through a worked example at your own pace, then answer a check and get the reason right away. Nothing here is saved; the course keeps your progress.

Module 2 · Abolition, reform and women's public voice

Worked example: comparing two records of one speech

  1. Record A: an 1851 newspaper report by a journalist who attended the convention, in standard English, with no repeated refrain.

A lesson check from each module

The checks need JavaScript turned on. The course itself works the same way.

What you get

Academics · High School$19 · included with the Academy pass and Whole-school licenses

What you finish with
A finished course in women's history: you can read a source against the grain and ask who made it, when and why, explain coverture and the reform roots of the women's rights movement, trace the road from Seneca Falls to the Nineteenth Amendment and say who was still excluded after 1920, compare suffrage campaigns in Britain, New Zealand and elsewhere, explain how the world wars, the Equal Pay Act, Title VII and Title IX changed women's lives, present both sides of the ERA debate fairly, compare women's roles in independence movements and international human rights law, and plan an oral history project of your own. Passing the final earns a Caveat certificate of completion.
Who it is for
Students in grades 9 to 12 taking or preparing for a women's history, U.S. history or world history course, students preparing a National History Day or research project, and homeschool families who want a full semester of women's history with primary source practice. It presents political debates, past and present, without taking sides.
Format
An online self-paced course: 6 modules and 18 lessons with worked examples you reveal step by step, 143 practice and exam items (multiple choice, numeric, fill-in and ordering), an explain-it-back prompt and a rubric-checked short response in every module, module exams with one retake, a 24-question final and a certificate with a verification code. About 13 hours in all; works on a phone or a computer.
Access
$19 one-time, yours on every device you sign in on; the course opens once you are signed in with it. Included with the Caveat Academy pass and Whole-school licenses. Also in the High school electives library ($119) and the Academics Suite pass ($149), and 1 more bundle. Progress is saved in this browser on this device, and the certificate page lets you download your record.
Where it lives
The High School space in Caveat Academics.
Support
Access, a receipt, a refund or a correction to the course: team@caveatacademic.com.

How it works

  1. Open the course and start Module 1. Each lesson takes about 25 to 35 minutes; two or three a week finishes the course in about a semester.
  2. Answer the checks as you read. Every answer shows the reason, and a miss links you back to the lesson that covers it.
  3. Finish each module with its practice set and exam. Proficient on every module opens the final; 70 percent passes it.
  4. Print or download your certificate and record from the certificate page.

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Sources and accuracy

The lessons are original writing by Caveat Academic Services. Facts were checked against these free, open references, which are also good places to read further.

  1. Library of Congress, women's history collections and the National American Woman Suffrage Association records: loc.gov
  2. National Archives, the Nineteenth Amendment and related documents: archives.gov
  3. National Park Service, Women's Rights National Historical Park, Seneca Falls: nps.gov/wori
  4. National Women's History Museum, biographies and online exhibits: womenshistory.org
  5. Inter-Parliamentary Union, women in national parliaments data: data.ipu.org
  6. United Nations, the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women: ohchr.org
  7. The Nobel Prize, official biographies of laureates: nobelprize.org

Women's History is a self-paced course from Caveat Academic Services. Dates and figures were checked against the references above; numbers such as workforce totals and shares of parliamentary seats are rounded and labeled approximate. Short quotations from historical documents are identified in the lessons; everything else is original writing. It does not replace a school course and awards no credit. Support: team@caveatacademic.com.