Women in History: Recent Episodes
Rebecca Eastham
This started as a school project, and I might start adding more episodes. I'll be talking about women's history, their triumphs and their defeats, and will probably go on a rant a few times.
This is a History Day project for my History Day class about the Milan Conference of 1880. If I could fit the captions into the description, I would.
This is a school project to tell the story of Hannie Schaft, a Dutch resistance fighter.
Credits:
“The teenage Dutch girls who seduced and killed Nazis.” YouTube, uploaded by BBC Reel,
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OuT_Wd7-kq4&list=LL&index=19&t=42s.
“Dutch Citizens Resist Nazi Occupation.” Global Nonviolent Action Database,
nvdatabase.swarthmore.edu/content/dutch-citizens-resist-nazi-occupation-1940-1945.
"Schaft, Hannie (1920–1945) ." Women in World History: A Biographical Encyclopedia,
Encyclopedia.com. 10 April 2021, www.encyclopedia.com/women/encyclopedias-
almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/schaft-hannie-1920-1945.
“The German Invasion of the Netherlands.” Anne Frank House, www.annefrank.org/en
/anne-frank/go-in-depth/german-invasion-netherlands/.
Deputy Prime Minister Ollongren, Kajsa. “Hannie Schaft Lecture.” Hannie Schaft Foundation,
hannieschaft.nl/to-all-international-visitors/.
This is a school project that talks about the American Eugenics program, the fictional book Necessary Lies, by Diane Chamberlain, and the PBS documentary, "The Eugenics Crusade."
Sources
Chamberlain, Diane. Necessary Lies. St. Martin’s Publishing Group, 2013.
“The Eugenics Crusade.” American Experience, written by Michelle Ferrari, directed by Michelle Ferrari, PBS, 16 October 2018.
Lajka, Arijeta and Julian Quinones. “‘What Kind of Society do you want to Live in: Inside the Country where Down Syndrome is Disappearing.” CBS, 14 August 2017, www.cbsnews.com/news/down-syndrome-iceland/. Accessed 28 September 2020.