With 2020 marking the 100-year anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment, librarians at Austin Peay State University's Woodward Library collaborated with a Women's and Gender Studies professor to create timely instruction sessions utilizing the Tennessee Virtual Archive and other resources. Students uncovered and analyzed primary sources related to local suffragists and anti-suffragists not commonly recognized in the historical narrative, and, by interpreting unambiguous propaganda posters, they learned to draw personal conclusions about primary source materials without the assistance of secondary and tertiary sources. These skills were then applied to analyzing text-based primary sources. This presentation will focus on the historical context for the instruction sessions and underscore the necessity of incorporating feminist pedagogy into one-shot instruction and reference interactions.
Participants will:
- Acquire new approaches for teaching students to utilize diverse library resources
- Connect contemporary issues to historical events that played a key role in shaping voting rights in America
