Women March, the immersive New-York Historical exhibition about 200 years of women’s activism and organizing, demonstrates that collective action begins when just one person confronts injustice, and then another joins her, and then another. The exhibition features a digital interactive on individuals’ lives, representing a portrait of some of the many instrumental figures in women’s activism….
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Ella Baker’s New York
July 2, 2020
Women March, the immersive New-York Historical exhibition about 200 years of women’s activism and organizing, demonstrates that collective action begins when just one person confronts injustice, and then another joins her, and then another. The exhibition features a digital interactive on individuals’ lives, representing a portrait of some of the many instrumental figures in women’s activism….
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Teaching Women’s History: The El Paso Laundry Strike of 1919
July 19, 2018
“What chance has a girl or woman to live a decent respectable life at the wages of this kind?”- El Paso City and County Labor Advocate, October 31, 1919 In October of 1919, as women across the United States eagerly anticipated the ratification of the 19th Amendment, a group of young women laborers in El Paso, Texas,…
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Finding Women in the Archives: Isadora Duncan
July 10, 2018
Editor’s note: We are lucky to have two fantastic summer interns at the Center for Women’s History, who are hard at work “finding women in the archives” of the New-York Historical Society. Their research will be incorporated into many ongoing initiatives, including our digital interactive exhibition, Women’s Voices, and our curriculum guide, Women and the…
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Shoes Tell Stories: An Interview with Stuart Weitzman
July 3, 2018
In early March 2018, Valerie Paley, Director of the Center for Women’s History and Chief Historian at New-York Historical Society, sat down with shoe designer Stuart Weitzman to discuss his collection of historic footwear, now on display in the Joyce B. Cowin Women’s History Gallery. This condensed interview now comprises the audio guide to Walk…
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Teaching Women’s History: Women of the Great Migration
June 27, 2018
This fall, in addition to launching Modernizing America: 1889-1920, the Progressive Era unit of Women and the American Story, we will also roll out a companion curriculum for the upcoming exhibition Black Citizenship in the Age of Jim Crow. One theme that teachers and students will be able to trace in both guides is the…
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High School Seniors at the Center for Women’s History
June 12, 2018
The New-York Historical Society engages students and scholars of all ages and abilities, from our “stroller tours through history” to fellowship programs for academic historians. A major part of our programming includes a wide variety of programs for high school students, which draw on our unique institutional status as both a major museum and a research…
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