The Center for Women’s History is thrilled to celebrate the exhibition Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, now on view through January 23, 2022. The traveling exhibition—organized by the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles—takes an expansive and engaging look at the Justice’s life and work, highlighting her ceaseless efforts to protect…

In her 1978 autobiographical family history, Proud Shoes: The Story of an American Family, Pauli Murray writes about the role of the women from the pre-Civil War and Reconstruction eras who “were not conscious feminists, but in coping with the intolerable tensions of their time, assumed responsibilities and performed actions which quietly defied convention and…

This Election Day, let iconic New York artist Lady Pink remind you to get out there and VOTE! Many New York City Hall offices—including the office of the mayor, the city comptroller, public advocate, and city council—plus many county-level and local positions, and statewide ballot proposals, are at stake even if it is an “off-year”…

Despite the pleasures of a three-day weekend, the second Monday in October has a highly contentious history. Although it was not celebrated at the federal level until 1934, the commemoration of Christopher Columbus’s first voyage became widespread at a time of intense anti-immigrant—particularly anti-Asian—sentiment. As historian Malinda Maynor Lowery put it, in the late 1800s,…

How could such a simple substance like milk be a matter of life or death for infants? A special installation on view on the fourth floor of the New-York Historical Society through November, 28, 2021 explores how, at the turn of the 20th century, babies who were not breastfed faced mortal danger with every sip…