Temperance advocate and prohibition supporter. Progressive. Straight-laced. Free-wheeling. Conservative. Radical. These words and more may be what come to mind when you think of Frances Willard. But they don’t fully describe her and in many ways get her entirely wrong. An upcoming talk at the Evanston History Center will tell the true story of Evanston’s […]
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The EWHP is pleased to announce a new partnership with the National Collaborative for Women’s History Sites. The Collaborative is moving its offices to the Evanston History Center and will be headquartered in Evanston. The Collaborative’s mission, to support and promote the preservation and interpretation of sites and locales that bear witness to women’s participation
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The Evanston Women’s History Project is proud to be a partner in three great upcoming events in March, just in time for Women’s History Month. On Friday, March 7th, Evanston will mark International Women’s Day 2014 with a breakfast celebration and keynote speech by Scheherazade Tillet, one of today’s rising female activists and an emerging voice in the movement
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A great presentation is coming up next week at the Northwestern University Library with local women’s history connections. Ellen Gruber Garvey, Ph.D., Professor of English at New Jersey City University and author of the book Writing with Scissors: American Scrapbooks from the Civil War to the Harlem Renaissance, will present her speech “Reading the Remnants:
A historic statue with Evanston women’s history connections is recreated and restored to its home in Chicago’s Lincoln Park. The Evanston based Woman’s Christian Temperance Union originally gave the statue to the City of Chicago. Though the concrete fountain which served as the base of the statue remained, the bronze statue itself had been stolen
Wonderful post on the Shorefront blog with the story of Lorraine Hairston Morton, former Mayor of Evanston. http://shorefrontjournal.wordpress.com/2013/07/01/lorraine-hairston-morton-i-am-more-than-my-smile/
By Molly Kettler, EHC Archives Volunteer and Sunday Docent To visitors of the Evanston History Center, the accomplishments of Caro Blymyer Dawes (1866 – 1957) may not be as well-known as those of her husband, Charles Gates Dawes (1865-1951). Charles would be the first to agree that Caro deserves recognition for her devotion to her
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100 years ago in June 1913, Illinois women won the right to vote. The story of the battle for suffrage in Illinois is important for several reasons: Illinois was the first state east of the Mississippi to expand the vote to women; Illinois was a more populous state than any previous state to give women
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2013 brings the 100th anniversary of two important women’s history moments – one with a national interest, one with a particular interest in Evanston and Illinois. In March of 2013, the nation will mark the anniversary of the 1913 Washington D.C. suffrage parade. The crowd response to this parade, turning a peaceful march into a
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This post originates from the Evanston History Center’s blog. Written by Lori Osborne, Archivist at the Evanston History Center and Director of the Evanston Women’s History Project, it covers news of a recent visit she made to Washington D.C. To see the entire post, click here. In early December, I had the distinct pleasure of being invited
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