Lessons in Herstory
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White Pencil / Impact / Design/Not for Profits / 2020
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Lessons in Herstory rewrites one of the most popular middle school US history textbooks without changing the textbook at all, using AR technology. Less than 11% of stories in US history textbooks are devoted to women, which means children aren’t seeing the full picture of what’s possible. Lessons in Herstory tackles the power imbalance between men and women in society by getting to the root of the problem: how we're conditioned as kids in school - which meant illuminating the stories of women in history that have been previously left out.
