The Evanston Women’s History Project is excited to unveil a new web resource that will highlight the contributions Evanston women and organizations made to making the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, removing gender restrictions on voting, possible. People today associate this accomplishment with well-known figures like Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, but there […]
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Saturday, September 26th What: Walking Tour through Evanston’s Amazing Women’s History When: 11:00 am-12:30 pm Where: Frances Willard House, 1730 Chicago Avenue Sunday September 27th What: 150th Anniversary Celebration of Frances Willard’s “Rest Cottage” When: 1:00-4:00 pm Where: Frances Willard House, 1730 Chicago Avenue Come enjoy two activities celebrating Evanston’s long history and the women
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Join EWHP on May 18th for an evening including an artistic overview of the creative process behind Northlight Theatre’s World Premiere Shining Lives: A Musical with the director/ co-creator, and a panel discussion centered around issues raised in the play. It’s 1922 and the young women of Chicago’s Radium Dial Company are living a dream—
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Lori Osborne, director of the Evanston Women’s History Project, was recently invited to speak on a panel covering the topic of Temperance and Woman Suffrage at the National Archives in Washington D.C. In partnership with the Sewall-Belmont House & Museum, the National Archives hosts an annual women’s history month event and this year the event
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Happy 75th birthday to the Frances E. Willard Memorial Library and Archives. Founded to honor Frances Willard’s 100th birthday, this institution continues to be a major resource for telling the story of her life and the work of the many women involved in the temperance movement and the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union. Evanston is lucky
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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:
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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When researching a prominent woman in history, often our first inclination is to look to her public accomplishments. We want to know how this woman enacted social change, because after all, that is what we as individuals are most affected by. But when we only focus on her social or political work, we are completely
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