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Posted by: Elizabeth Novara
A new acquisition sheds light on White House New Year’s receptions, fashion, and the social customs of Washington society during the presidency of James Monroe in the early national period.
Posted in: Holidays, Politics, Women's & Gender History
Posted by: Elizabeth Novara
This week marks the 100th anniversary of the introduction of the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), also known as the Lucretia Mott Amendment, to the U.S. Congress on December 10, 1923. Find materials throughout the Library of Congress on the history of this unratified, but impactful, constitutional amendment.
Posted in: Women's & Gender History
Posted by: Elizabeth Novara
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.
Posted in: Diaries, Digital Collections, Holidays, Women's & Gender History
Posted by: Elizabeth Novara
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.
Posted in: Researcher Resources, Women's & Gender History
Posted by: Elizabeth Novara
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.
Posted in: International History, Letters, Science and Technology, Women's & Gender History
Posted by: Elizabeth Novara
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.
Posted in: International History, Of Note, Science and Technology, Women's & Gender History
Posted by: Elizabeth Novara
Women’s activism in both the temperance and the women’s suffrage movements can be found in the Manuscript Division’s collections.
Posted in: Politics, Women's & Gender History
Posted by: Elizabeth Novara
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.
Posted in: African American History, Politics, Women's & Gender History
Posted by: Elizabeth Novara
The recently acquired personal papers of award-winning poet and teacher Ai Ogawa (1947-2010) are newly processed and open to researchers in the Manuscript Division of the Library of Congress.
Posted in: African American History, Asian American History, Literature Culture & the Arts, Native American History, Women's & Gender History