Light Shed on Women's History

The National Women’s History Museum presents the newest installment of their mini-documentary series about women’s history. The 20-minute video titled, Keepers of History: Women Who Protected One Half of our Nation’s Story, spotlights various women in American history, all of whom are otherwise undetected in everyday school lessons.

Two women in focus are Mercy Otis Warren and Mary Ritter Beard. Mercy Otis Warren aided the American Revolution with her anonymous anti-British plays. She also kept records of the war’s history in three handwritten volumes. Mary Ritter Beard lent her hand during the Suffrage Movement and also published works in the topic of women’s history as early as 1915.

The idea behind the documentary series is to expose women like Mercy Otis Warren and Mary Ritter Beard and their valiant strides to make the woman’s voice heard. This visual series is not unlike Women’s History For Beginners. The book concentrates on the question, who are the great women of history and why don’t we know more about them? To further prove how little we know about these female leaders, the introduction of the book poses as a fifty-question test on the great women of the past. The reader is invited to take the test— with the expectation that most will fail, having been undereducated in women’s history.

With the increased production of tools like, Women’s History For Beginners and Keepers of History: Women Who Protected One Half of our Nation’s Story, women’s history will soon be as valued, exposed and understood as the history presented to us on a daily.

To view Keepers of History: Women Who Protected One Half of our Nation’s Story, please visit http://www.nwhm.org/about-nwhm/press/featured-press/keepers.

For more information about Women’s History For Beginners, and other For Beginners books, please visit http://www.forbeginnersbooks.com/.