By all accounts, 2020 was an eventful and historic, yet difficult year. From the public health crisis to social unrest and increasing activism, and from commemorating the suffrage centennial to celebrating breakthroughs in women’s political participation, Women at the Center has sought to uncover silver linings of this difficult time buried not too deeply within…
Read MoreWomen 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…
Read MoreThe New-York Historical Society’s exhibition, Women March, commemorates the centennial of the 19th Amendment as it explores the efforts of a wide range of women’s collective efforts to expand American democracy in the centuries before and after the suffrage victory. While the Museum is temporarily closed, we are committed to sharing its ideas from afar. In…
Read MoreCOVID-19 has radically altered our daily lives. The starkest of these changes are calls from health experts and political leaders to social distance in order to contain the disease’s spread among vulnerable groups, including the elderly and the immunocompromised. This is not the first time a novel disease has demanded that we change our daily…
Read MoreHere at the Center for Women’s History, every month is Women’s History month, but March is still our busiest month of all. We kicked things off on March 4 with our Third Annual Diane and Adam E. Max Conference on Women’s History — now fully archived on our website — and we haven’t slowed down…
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