History, Natural History & the Arts
Women’s Rights National Historical Park has announced the digital availability of a set of personal and business papers held by the Jane and Richard Hunt family.
The Hunt Family Papers include over 1,100 plans, contracts, essays, store records, and correspondence dating from 1828 to 1856. [Read more…] about Women’s Rights Park Offers Digital Collection of Hunt Papers
On March 25th, 1911, a fire swept through the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in New York City, claiming the lives of 146 workers. Most of the victims were young immigrant women from Eastern and Southern Europe. In the wake of the fire, a group of women labor activists fought to ensure that the tragedy led to concrete change. [Read more…] about Amended Podcast: Embers and Activism
The William G. Pomeroy Foundation has announced that its Women’s Suffrage Marker nomination deadline has been extended to January 15th, 2021. [Read more…] about Opportunity to Honor Suffragists Extended
Kathryn Helene Starbuck was born in Saratoga Springs in 1887, only a few years after her father, Edgar Starbuck, had moved to town and purchased a department store on Broadway. Kathryn was a bright young girl and after graduating from Saratoga Springs High School went on to earn a degree from Vassar College in 1911.
In 1914, she became one of the first female graduates of Albany Law School and was admitted to the New York State Bar Association the following year. [Read more…] about Kathryn Starbuck: Saratoga Suffragist, Attorney, and Politician
Landmark West, the historic preservation organization for the Upper West Side of Manhattan, is set to host Dr. Nina Harkrader, who will share true tales of the Upper West Side Women who made significant contributions to achieving women’s suffrage, on Thursday, November 19th. [Read more…] about Upper West Side Women Suffragists Program Thursday
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Angelica Shirley Carpenter’s new children’s picture book The Voice of Liberty (South Dakota Historical Society Press, 2020), with illustrations by Edwin Fotheringham, tells the story of three women’s rights activists, Matilda Joslyn Gage, Lillie Devereux Blake, and Lillie’s daughter, Katherine Devereux Blake, who staged a protest at the dedication of the Statue of Liberty on October 28, 1886.
Why protest that statue? Because they thought it wrong for Liberty to be portrayed as a woman when women had no liberty, not even the right to vote, in the United States. [Read more…] about Statute of Liberty Protest: Picture Book Highlights Women’s 1886 Demonstration
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The new book Provocative Mothers and Their Precocious Daughters: 19th Century Women’s Rights Leaders (Atlantic Publishing, 2020) by Suzanne Gehring Schnittman looks at the relationship between mothers and daughters, and pioneer women’s rights leaders Martha Wright, Abby Kelley Foster, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Lucy Stone. [Read more…] about Provocative Mothers and Their Precocious Daughters
The September 2020 episode of “Crossroads of Rockland History,” focused on the two new exhibitions on view now at the Historical Society of Rockland County (HSRC). Mariel Farlow and her daughter Michele Lehtis appeared to discuss the monumental sculpture “Being of Light – Image of the Human Soul.” [Read more…] about Public Sculpture, Suffrage on Rockland History Podcast
The East Hampton Historical Society is set to host a one-day exhibition at the Clinton Academy Museum entitled Votes for Women: A Portrait of Persistence, on Saturday, September 19th, from 10 am to 2 pm. [Read more…] about Votes for Women: Exhibit Headed to East Hampton
The Ticonderoga Historical Society is set to present “The Suffrage Centennial: Trial and Triumph,” a program highlighting the struggle to provide women the right to vote, on Friday, August 28th. [Read more…] about Suffrage Centennial Program in Ticonderoga