Grade Range: 9-12Resource Type(s): Lessons & Activities, Primary SourceDate Posted: 8/18/2008
A brief summary of the changes in voting technology is the focus of the introduction to Vote: The Machinery of Democracy, an online exhibition from the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History. This resource discusses a range of voting technologies from paper and machine ballots, to the electronic voting systems that are coming into widespread use today.
Multimedia instruction, Museum education
In January 1917, members of the National Woman's Party (NWP) became the first people to picket th...
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A humorous and poignant fictional story, this book is also an eye-opening view of the women's suf...
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