A history of women's achievement in America
Subtitle: Volume 1
By: produced by Centre Communications for Ambrose Video Publishing ; produced by Ron Meyer and Kayann Short ; written by Tom Henwood, Ron Meyer and Mark Reeder ; directed by Ron Meyer
Contributors: Arkenstone, David; Ramsey, Michael; Centre Communications, Inc; Ambrose Video Publishing
Publisher: Distributed by Ambrose Video Publishing
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: [videorecording] /
Number of pages: 60
Subjects: Women; History; Biography; Biographical films; Video recordings for the hearing impaired
Description: A history of women's achievement in America examines the 400-year history of American women's inspiring accomplishments and victories.

Making of a new world, 1621-1805. This program discusses how women helped found the English colonies; Anne Hutchinson and Anne Bradstreet; America's first black poet, Phillis Wheatley; Abigail Adams and Sacagawea.

Era of women's firsts, 1836-1851. This program discusses Juana Briones and the establishment of San Francisco; Mary Lynn and the foundation of Mount Holyoke, the first women's college; Susan Magoffin; Maria Mitchell, the first scientist to discover a comet with a telescope; Amelia Bloomer, the publisher of The Lily; and Sojourner Truth.
Notes: "Accessing extra documents: This DVD has historical documents, timeline, blackline masters, teacher's guide and lesson plans that can be displayed on-screen or printed out.  To access these files, put this DVD in a computer with a DVD player.  Quit the DVD software if it starts to play the disc.  Navigate to this DVD and look in the folders labeled 'Extras.'  The 'Documents' folder had PDF files.  To view the files you must have Adobe Acrobat Reader.  If you do not have Acrobat Reader, you can download a copy for free a www.adobe.com.  Double click on the files to open them"--Container insert.

DVD extras: Teacher guides and lesson plans; photo gallery; timeline; historical documents; blackline master quizzes.

Music, David Arkenstone ; editor, Michael Ramsey.

Presenter: Donna Mills.

DVD.

Soundtrack in English with subtitles in English and Spanish. Closed-captioned.
Table of contents: title: Making of a new world --; title: Era of women's firsts.