Virtual Documenting the Past: Women’s Suffrage

Description

Students will take a virtual tour of Liberty Hall Museum’s Women’s Suffrage exhibit. Guided by museum educators in period clothing, students will discover the long struggle for the 19th Amendment, including how the Kean women of Liberty Hall did not favor suffrage. Students will end the program studying and transcribing primary source documents relating to the women’s suffrage movement.

To book a program, please contact Hannah Gaston, Coordinator of School Programs at hgaston@kean.edu or 908.527.0400.

Offered At

Liberty Hall Museum

Liberty Hall Museum, a historic house and gardens museum in Union, New Jersey and the state's premier field trip destination, offers a diverse array of school programs, scout programs and outreach programs designed to enlighten and inform all curious minds.

Whether you are playing with toys from over 200 years ago with your school class, studying the plants in our historic greenhouses with your scout troop, or engaging with a presentation about Liberty Hall’s powerful women at your local library, Liberty Hall Museum provides the unique opportunity to see, touch, and relive history.

Our school programs meet a variety of New Jersey Core Curriculum Standards, our Scout Programs fulfill several requirements for badges, and all our programs are conducted by museum educators who share a genuine love of this museum. Liberty Hall’s historians and staff are dedicated to ensuring that every visitor who enters the museum leaves with a greater appreciation for our nation and our state’s history.

Details

Subjects

History, 19th Century, Women's History, Social Studies, Primary Sources

Capacity

25 students, 1 chap. per 25 stu.

Duration

50 min.

Activity

Virtual Field Trip

Grades

6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12

Price Options

$150.00 per Group for School Group