The sequel Wonder Woman 1984 is hitting theaters and HBO Max on December 25, so the Center for Women’s History is taking a look back at how the superhero character—who first appeared in a comic book in 1941—has been imagined, utilized, and contested as a feminist icon over the decades. Wonder Woman was the creation…

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…

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 individual activists’ lives, representing a portrait of the many instrumental figures in women’s activism….

John Corbino’s 1944 painting Carmen Jones, in the collection of the New-York Historical Society, depicts the Broadway musical-turned-Hollywood-hit of the same title. Corbino’s expressionist, abstracted rendering portrays the dynamism, energy, and movement of the live performance. Yet even as Carmen Jones was marketed as a celebration of African American life and culture, the painting and the…

No visit to Hotbed, the exhibition currently on view in New-York Historical’s Joyce B. Cowin Women’s History Gallery, is complete without a stop in the “nickelodeon,” our re-creation of an early movie theater. Inside, visitors can see excerpts from the pro- and anti-suffrage films that proliferated in the early 20th century. However, you may be surprised…