New York Women’s Suffrage Centennial Conference Planned
On Friday, October 7, the New York Cultural Heritage Tourism Network will hold a Women’s Suffrage Centennial Conference at the Holiday Inn in Seneca Falls/Waterloo. 2017 marks the 100th anniversary of...
View ArticleBallots, Bloomers, and Marmalade: The Life of Elizabeth Smith Miller
Across the street from the home where Elizabeth Smith Miller designed the bloomers – the “most important dress reform of the 19th Century” according the historic marker in the yard, a biography of...
View Article‘Votes for Women’ Reading, Discussion Program In Canton
The New York Council for the Humanities has joined forces with the St. Lawrence County Historical Association to offer “Votes for Women”, a monthly reading and discussion series that runs from...
View ArticleMemorial to Civil War Nurses Dedicated
The Tompkins County Civil War Commission has dedicated a memorial to Civil War Nurses. Located on the Tompkins Cortland Community College campus, off of Route 13 in Dryden, New York, the memorial...
View ArticleNational Park Service Issues LGBTQ History Study
A new National Park Service theme study identifying places and events associated with the history of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer-identified Americans has been released. LGBTQ America:...
View ArticleWomen Veterans Event At Coventry Town Museum
The Coventry Town Museum will host a presentation by Captain Theresa Olszowy, US Army (Ret) to support local women veterans and active duty military, on Tuesday, October 25th, at 6 pm, in the Community...
View ArticleAn American Women’s Suffrage Movement Concert in Song and Story
Old Songs, Inc. presents a concert of 19th–20th century songs from the Women’s Suffrage Movement on Friday, November 18 and Saturday, November 19, 2016, at 7:30 pm at the Old Songs Community Arts...
View ArticleSandra Weber: How Long Must Women Wait
One hundred years ago, on October 22, 1916, Inez Milholland Boissevain gave a powerful suffrage speech in Los Angeles. At one point, she directed a question at Woodrow Wilson: “Mr. President, how long...
View ArticleSally Roesch Wagner on the Womens’ Suffrage Centennial
This speech was delivered at the Women’s Suffrage Centennial Conference on October 7, 2016. This is a time of great potential, a celebration of significance. The U. S. government was founded on a...
View ArticleElizabeth Cady Stanton’s Birthday Celebration
On Saturday afternoon, November 12th, the Women’s Rights National Historical Park will celebrate the 201st birthday of Elizabeth Cady Stanton. This will be the last day of the season that the Elizabeth...
View ArticleAmerica’s Suffrage Martyr Comes Out of the Shadows
Essex County in upstate New York is Inez Milholland country. Inez Milholland Boissevain (1886-1916) considered among America’s suffrage martyrs and 2016 is the centennial of her death. The centennial...
View ArticleAmerican Museum of Women’s History Report Issued
The Congressional Commission on the American Museum of Women’s History has announced the submission of its official report to the President, Congress, and the American People. The report contains the...
View ArticleGender Transformation in Ancient Egypt Exhibit
The ancient Egyptians believed that to make rebirth possible for a deceased woman, she briefly had to turn into a man. In A Woman’s Afterlife: Gender Transformation in Ancient Egypt, the Brooklyn...
View ArticleUpdate on Inez Milholland Recognition Project
Will the nomination of America’s suffrage martyr, Inez Milholland, for a Presidential Citizens Medal get lost in the shuffle from one administration to the next? U.S. Representative Jackie Speier of...
View ArticleHistorical Journal Rediscovers Long Island Woman Architect
Though Olive Tjaden’s name is not known to most Long Islanders today, a mayor of Garden City in the 1930s reportedly suggested that the community be renamed Tjaden City, because she designed so many...
View ArticleNew Book Explores History of Suffrage Statue
Sandra Weber’s new book, The Woman Suffrage Statue: A History of Adelaide Johnson’s Portrait Monument to Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony at the United States Capitol...
View ArticleAnn Dexter Gordon To Speak At 2017 Anthony Luncheon
The National Susan B. Anthony Museum & House has announced that the keynote speaker for the 2017 Susan B. Anthony Birthday Luncheon is Ann Dexter Gordon, Ph.D., the leading authority on Susan B....
View ArticleTompkins Co Legislature Recognizes Suffrage Centennial
On January 3, 2017, in recognition of the centennial of the passage of the suffrage act in New York in the year 1917, the Tompkins County Legislature passed a proclamation declaring 2017 the Year of...
View ArticleCall for Papers: Women in New Netherland
The year 2017 marks the 100th anniversary of women’s suffrage in New York State. The New Netherland Institute is aiming to use this centenary and their Annual Conference to highlight the role of women...
View ArticleA History of Mail Order Brides in Early America
How do you build colonies without women? Most of the colonial adventurers from England and France who set out for Jamestown, New France, and colonial Louisiana were men. But how do you build and...
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