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Sustainable Organizations? — The Fundamentals Haven’t Changed Much
While researching women’s leadership in Philadelphia for History Making Productions, I found the wonderful essay below, called “A Recipe for an Ideal Club.” Courtesy of the New Century Guild, founded...
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Molly Pitcher Lecture in New Jersey
Just in time for Women’s History Month, Monmouth County Historical Association will present as part of its Historically Speaking lecture series, “Molly Pitcher and the Women of the Army,” a lecture by...
View ArticleNew Digital Collection Launches on Higher Education of Women
The Albert M. Greenfield Digital Center for the History of Women’s Education at Bryn Mawr College, in partnership with the Seven Sisters archives, announces College Women: Documenting the History of...
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Permanent Exhibit Opens at Alice Paul Institute
The Alice Paul Institute in Mount Laurel, New Jersey, has opened Alice Paul: In Pursuit of Ordinary Equality, the first permanent exhibit at Paulsdale, the activist’s birthplace and childhood home. The...
View ArticleWomen’s History Month Conference at Rutgers-Camden Seeks Presenters
The Women’s and Gender Studies Program and The Community Leadership Center at Rutgers University-Camden seek presenters for a one-day conference on Friday, March 25, 2016 on the campus of Rutgers...
View ArticleOrganizations Seek Proposals for Black Women of the Movement Symposium
The African American Museum in Philadelphia, the Smithsonian Institution, Independence National Historical Park and the Friends of Independence National Historical Park are partnering together to offer...
View ArticleWomen’s History Wing Added to New York Historical Society; Museum to National...
In the first-ever digital report to Congress, the bipartisan Congressional Commission on the American Museum of Women’s History proposed on November 15 that a new Smithsonian museum be erected on the...
View ArticleNew-York Historical Society Women’s History Gallery Inaugural Exhibition...
Saving Washington, the inaugural exhibition in the Joyce B. Cowin Women’s History Gallery at the New-York Historical Society, opens today, March 8, 2017, coinciding with International Women’s Day....
View ArticleUniversity of Rochester Acquires Newly-discovered Women’s Suffrage Archive
The University of Rochester has acquired newly-discovered correspondence among women suffragists, including letters written by Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucy Stone and Isabella Beecher...
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Women’s History Featured in Latest Issue of The Public Historian
The May 2017 issue of The Public Historian, the journal of the National Council on Public History (NCPH), takes a look at how women’s history is represented in public with a number of essays and...
View ArticleNew Exhibit on Women’s Suffrage Opens at Eden Woolley House
On July 28, a new exhibit telling the story of the fight for women’s suffrage, and New Jersey’s unique role in that fight, opened at the Eden Woolley House in Ocean, NJ. The exhibit “Votes for Women:...
View ArticleFirst Statue of Historical Women in Central Park to be Redesigned to Include...
In 2018, the non-profit the Monumental Women Statue Fund set out to address the gender disparity among Central Park’s historical statues. The first statue designed by the Fund, however, has been met...
View ArticleRenovations Underway on Future Home of Maryland Women’s Museum
The historic Bloomfield Manor in Centerville, Maryland once belonged to Mary Edwardine Bourke, one of the earliest female historians of Maryland. Today, an eponymous nonprofit plans to honor this...
View ArticleBaltimore Museum of Art Will Only Buy Works by Women Artists in 2020
The Baltimore Museum of Art holds 95,000 works of art. Of that, just four percent are works made by women. For the entirety of 2020, the museum will focus on correcting this imbalance by buying only...
View ArticleChester County Historical Society Wins Women’s History Contest
The Chester County Historical Society holds an impressive collection of memorabilia related to women’s suffrage in Pennsylvania, but perhaps the most important artifact from the movement is the...
View ArticleNJ May Add Suffragist Alice Paul to the National Statuary Hall Collection
Each day thousands of tourists visit the National Statuary Hall in the U.S. Capitol building. This room is the center for the Capitol’s statuary collection that honor notable people in each state’s...
View ArticleGoucher College Honors Suffragette History
In 1917, women from around the country picketed outside the White House demanding a federal woman’s suffrage amendment. Among the picketers were thirteen alumni of Goucher College, a Baltimore women’s...
View ArticleAttending the Brooklyn Museum’s Virtual Dinner Party
When I go to a museum, I like to read every piece of available text. While I can appreciate some objects from a purely aesthetic point of view, my background as a historian always leads me to think...
View ArticleOld Barracks Exhibit Explores Its Role in Anti-Suffrage Movement
Museums across the country have been mounting women’s suffrage exhibits in anticipation of the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment. Most of these exhibits have focused on the...
View ArticleWinterthur Uses Social Media to Let You See Inside the Galleries
Many of the digital history projects I have browsed during this quarantine were produced by institutions I have visited in-person. Looking at the Brooklyn Museum’s webpage on “The Dinner Party” helped...
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