Evanston Women

How Evanston Women Have Wielded the Power of Theatre

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By Sarah Barton, PhD Candidate for the Evanston Women’s History Project, March 2026 Evanston is known for many things, Northwestern University, the WCTU national headquarters, it’s beautiful parks and beaches, but less is known about it’s massive impact on theatre education, Hollywood actors, comedy, children’s theatre, national education standards, and theatre writ large in the […]

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In the Footsteps of Alice Bunker Stockham

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By Serena Covkin, PhD for the Evanston Women’s History Project, March 2025 Alice Bunker Stockham was a popular physician, a pioneering social reformer, a world-traveling educator, and Evanston’s first certified tokologist. She assumed the role in 1883, when she reworked the Greek word for “birth” into the title of her first medical advice manual, Tokology:

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Premiere of New Documentary: Discovering Catharine

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The McCulloch family, in collaboration with Evanston filmmaker Susan Hope Engel of Hope Productions and Dean Bushala of Red Branch Productions Ltd., is proud to announce the premiere of Discovering Catharine. This one-hour documentary explores the life and legacy of Evanston suffragist Catharine Waugh McCulloch (1862 – 1945), an early female attorney and a fervent

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