hen Ken Burns and Paul Barnes considered subjects for their American Lives biography series, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony were foremost in their minds, largely because Burns and Barnes feel there’s an urgent need to educate Americans about Stanton and Anthony’s work, which they consider a forgotten chapter in America’s history.

Women’s history is every American’s history—incorporating it into your curriculum is easy with these lesson ideas for high school students. Write editorials about women’s rights around the world today; interview senior citizens about how women’s roles have changed in the 20th century; investigate women’s legal rights over 200 years of American history through primary documents; and explore the connections and conflicts between the suffrage and abolition movements in 19th century America.