AUTHOR: Elizabeth Novara

Elizabeth A. Novara is the American Women’s History Specialist for the Library of Congress Manuscript Division. She co-curated the Library’s Shall Not Be Denied: Women Fight for the Vote exhibition, during the 2020 centennial of the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. She holds an MLS in archives management; an MA in history; a graduate certificate in women’s studies; and is currently pursuing a PhD in American history at the University of Maryland, College Park.

Most Recent Posts

• “Nothing that you do…can fail to interest me”: Elizabeth Blackwell and Florence Nightingale Exchange Ideas on Women in Medicine September 14th, 2023
• Of Note: Reducing the Spread September 7th, 2023
• Temperance and Suffrage Movement Collections Connections August 24th, 2023
• Of Note: Frieda Fromm-Reichmann’s Carte d’Identité August 10th, 2023
• The Centennial of the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA): Origins and Early Debates July 27th, 2023
• The Manuscript Division Transcribes Fifty-Six Letters from Philip Schuyler to Alexander and Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton May 11th, 2023
• Story-Teller Poet: The Ai Ogawa Papers are Newly Available in the Manuscript Division March 30th, 2023
• Feminist Rivals: The National Woman’s Party and the League of Women Voters in Post-Suffrage Politics March 23rd, 2023
• Behind the Scenes: Uncovering Family History While Processing the Records of the National Council of Jewish Women March 16th, 2023