Recent Posts
- How Evanston Women Have Wielded the Power of TheatreBy 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,… Read more: How Evanston Women Have Wielded the Power of Theatre
- In the Footsteps of Alice Bunker StockhamBy 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 ’74Part 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
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Frances E. Willard
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