In 2019, for the first time in history, the majority of students in American medical schools were female. The battle for women’s access to the medical profession has been long and arduous since 1849, when Elizabeth Blackwell became the first woman to graduate from an American medical college. Even in 1969, women still only made…
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The First Women Doctors: Q&A with Author Olivia Campbell
July 12, 2021
In 2019, for the first time in history, the majority of students in American medical schools were female. The battle for women’s access to the medical profession has been long and arduous since 1849, when Elizabeth Blackwell became the first woman to graduate from an American medical college. Even in 1969, women still only made…
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Remembering Ruth Bader Ginsburg: Notes from Her 2014 Public Program
September 23, 2020
The Center for Women’s History mourns the passing of legal titan and hometown luminary, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. For some time, we have been deep into research and preparations for a museum exhibition in her honor planned for next year, and wanted to share the audio recording from a 2014 public program at…
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Get Counted! Women and the Census
Have you completed the U.S. Census? October 31 is the last day you can do so at https://my2020census.gov/. Women have been counted since the first Census in 1790, but the kind of information recorded about them has changed, as have the roles they have played carrying out the census. In honor of the 2020 Census,…
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Intergenerational and Collective Curation: Teen Leaders’ Contributions to “Women March”
September 4, 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, which visitors will be able to visit when the New-York Historical Society reopens on Sept. 11, features a digital…
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Activism on Film in “Women March”
August 31, 2020
Women March, the current exhibition in the Joyce B. Cowin Gallery of Women’s History, looks at 200 years of women’s activism, including a variety of strategies and tactics, from speeches and writing to fundraising and protests. It includes more than 80 film clips from 1915 to 2019 to create an immersive experience and highlight the…
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The Suffrage Centennial: Righting, and Rewriting, Historical Wrongs
August 25, 2020
“We hold these truths to be self-evident…” Even the least historically well-versed of American citizens might recognize these stirring words from the Declaration of Independence, issued some 244 years ago this summer. The document outlined the American colonists’ gripes against Great Britain and its king, whose “repeated injuries and usurpations” the petition’s penman, Thomas Jefferson,…
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