Recent Posts

• In the Footsteps of Alice Bunker Stockham
  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… Read more: In the Footsteps of Alice Bunker Stockham
• Evanston, Chautauqua, and the Summer of ’74
  Part 3 of a series / By Janet Olson, CWHL Archivist We refer to 1874, of course—a time of change, endings and beginnings, for Frances Willard and the temperance movement… Read more: Evanston, Chautauqua, and the Summer of ’74
• Premiere of New Documentary: Discovering Catharine
  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… Read more: Premiere of New Documentary: Discovering Catharine

Evanston is remarkable in nothing if not for the ability, individuality, and enterprise of its women.

Frances E. Willard

The Evanston Women’s History Project
at the
Evanston History Center
225 Greenwood Street
Evanston, IL 60201
(847) 475-3410
ewhp@evanstonhistorycenter.org