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Women Through History
By Kaitlyn Sexton

Why Study Women’s History

Studying women’s history is a way to give a voice to women in the past. Until the last few decades, those who studied history were mainly concerned with the big events in the past, with the leaders, the wars, and how forms of government evolved. What were mostly overlooked were the everyday things in life. How did people live their everyday lives and what made the home that they were fighting for in all those wars so important to them? Over the last few decades, historians have been filling in those gaps and looking for sources that had been mostly ignored before this. In the past, historians generally considered diaries and letters from women important only if they contained information about a famous person or important event. Now their journals and letters are being read because of the information they contain about the everyday lives of people in the past.

Studying women’s history can lead to the discovery of many little-known parts of the past. Many people have at least some knowledge about the Civil War, but did you know that women fought in the Civil War? Many people have heard of the Viking Sagas that tell about their settlement in the new world, but did you know that a woman was part of the Viking settlement at Vinland?