Missing Women and Feminist Economics
Posted by: Natalie Burclaff
Where have two million women gone and how can economists find them?
Posted in: Labor, Women's History
Archive: 2021 (23 Posts)
Honoring African Americans: Historic Women Trailblazers and Advocacy Organizations
Posted by: Natalie Burclaff
Maggie L. Walker, Nannie Helen Burroughs, and Mary Church Terrell founded and led organizations with a focus on social activism through the development of personal relationships, mentoring, and collaborating to bring about social change, often with a goal of bringing more people into the middle class.
Posted in: African American History, Women's History
Join Us for a Virtual Business Research Orientation on March 10
Posted by: Natalie Burclaff
Interested in how to do business research at the Library of Congress? Come to our Virtual Business Research Orientation on March 10, from 1-2 pm!
Posted in: Business
Honoring African Americans: Cornerstones of Economic Development – African American Insurance Companies
Posted by: Natalie Burclaff
Many early African American insurance companies focused on industrial insurance or burial insurance and employed people in the community to sell and administer insurance contracts. Explore our resources related to African American insurance industry, including founders like Aaron McDuffie Moore, John Merrick and Charles Clinton (C.C.) Spaulding.
Posted in: African American History, Business
Even the Best Cannot Always Sell: Direct Sales in 1889
Posted by: Natalie Burclaff
Today in the United States, we often think of a canvasser as someone soliciting votes, but historically, canvassers were also those who solicited orders for items such as books or life insurance policies.
Posted in: Business