This Thanksgiving take inspiration from Alice Stone Blackwell’s “Pleasure Book,” where the journalist and women’s rights advocate recorded daily moments of optimism and joy.
The Manuscript Division welcomes its second National Woman’s Party research fellow this fall and announces the opening of the application period for the third year of the National Woman’s Party Fellowship.
The author connects with the past by sewing a dress inspired by one worn by pageant director Hazel MacKaye, as seen in a photograph from the National Woman’s Party Records.
Letters exchanged between two great women of medicine, Elizabeth Blackwell and Florence Nightingale, demonstrate differing perspectives on women’s roles in the medical profession in the nineteenth century.
Cornelia Bryce Pinchot visited Iran in 1949 and returned to the U.S. with a striking public health poster warning against the spread of the infectious eye disease, trachoma.
While much of the history of the Equal Rights Amendment is often focused on the 1970s, the discourse during the first few decades after the amendment’s introduction showcased the differing viewpoints held by labor feminists, African American women, and various women’s organizations at that time.
For much of the twentieth century “coming out” carried with it a particular meaning associated with friendship, intimacy, and community. The new “Join In” exhibit explores how Americans have engaged in associational life in order “to achieve goals from simple fellowship to social change.” It also highlights the emergence of the LGBTQ community in the United States during the twentieth century.