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Not For Ourselves Alone
This content-rich site traces the beginnings of the women’s rights movement and tells the story of the two individuals who were instrumental in motivating the nation to grant women the right to vote.
In November 2, 1920, over 8 million American women voted for the first time in history, yet the two women who fought longest and hardest for women’s suffrage, Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, didn’t live long enough to cast a vote. Not For Ourselves Alone, hosted on PBS Online, captures the spirit of the documentary film by Ken Burns and Paul Barnes. Both educational and entertaining, the site combines the personal and political with excerpts from archival photos, film, letters, speeches, and historical commentary. The Not For Ourselves Alone site combines the best of film and Web media to create a complete interactive resource on the history of women’s suffrage. The heart of the site is The Movement, a rich-media storytelling environment that combines cinematic and interactive features. The site encourages users to explore and discover the story of these women’s lives through a media collage of historical photographs, dramatic voice-overs, and commentary by historians and biographers. A content-rich research and response environment provides concurrent historical and cultural events, archival documents, and commentaries about Stanton and Anthony’s legacy. In addition to being a research portal for the suffrage movement, the Web site provides access to forums for posting and reading about contemporary women’s issues.
Press & Awards
Project Cool, “Citing the Sightings,” January 1, 2000Project Cool, Cool Sightings, December 7, 1999Yahoo!, Cool Pick, November 19, 1999Yahoo!, Yahooligans! New Discoveries, November 19, 1999Imagine what it would be like to live in another time, in another place, as some other person. This great PBS site lets you compare your life to that of kids in the 1800s.
Communication Arts, Site of the Week, November 15, 1999Netscape Picks, What’s Cool, November 15, 1999The Scout Report, November 5, 1999This fine companion Website offers a number of related resources...Simply put, PBS has done it again.
Credits
- Designers
- Brad Johnson, Sam Ward
- Developers
- Kim Markegard, Julie Beeler, Sam Ward
- Project Manager
- Anmarie Trimble
- Production Assistant
- Suzanne Mattson
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