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….

One of the great joys of doing public history in the digital age is making connections that might never have been possible without online publishing and social media. A few weeks back, we ran a post on Women at the Center titled “Look for the Union Label: A History of the ILGWU’s Iconic Jingle” in conjunction…

When we set out to curate a show on the history of women’s work and organizing in the garment industry, we started, as we always do, by digging through our own archives at the New-York Historical Society. Early on, we found a handful of giveaway items—”swag”—from the International Ladies’ Garment Workers Union (ILGWU) in our…

“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,…