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Suffrage Movement

Women’s Rights Park Offers Digital Collection of Hunt Papers

December 31, 2020 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

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

Filed Under: History, Western NY Tagged With: Suffrage Movement, Women, Women’s Rights National Historical Park, womens history

Amended Podcast: Embers and Activism

December 27, 2020 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

amended podcastOn 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

Filed Under: Adirondacks & NNY, Capital-Saratoga, History, Hudson Valley - Catskills, Mohawk Valley, New York City, Western NY Tagged With: Books, Immigration, Podcasts, Suffrage Movement, Women, womens history

Opportunity to Honor Suffragists Extended

December 4, 2020 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

pomeroy foundation signThe 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

Filed Under: Adirondacks & NNY, Capital-Saratoga, History, Hudson Valley - Catskills, Mohawk Valley, New York City, Western NY Tagged With: Suffrage Movement, William Pomeroy Foundation, Women, womens history

Kathryn Starbuck: Saratoga Suffragist, Attorney, and Politician

November 30, 2020 by Guest Contributor 1 Comment

Kathryn Helene StarbuckKathryn 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

Filed Under: Adirondacks & NNY, Capital-Saratoga, History Tagged With: Political History, politics, Saratoga, Saratoga County, Saratoga County History Center, Saratoga County History Roundtable, Suffrage Movement, womens history

Upper West Side Women Suffragists Program Thursday

November 18, 2020 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

Mrs. J.L. Laidlaw. Suffragette c1910-15Landmark 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

Filed Under: Events, History, New York City Tagged With: Manhattan, New York City, Political History, Suffrage Movement

Statute of Liberty Protest: Picture Book Highlights Women’s 1886 Demonstration

November 2, 2020 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

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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

Filed Under: History, New York City Tagged With: Books, Statue of Liberty, Suffrage Movement, womens history

Provocative Mothers and Their Precocious Daughters

October 3, 2020 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

Provocative Mothers and Their Precocious DaughtersBook Purchases made through this link help New York Almanack’s mission to report new publications relevant to New York State.

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

Filed Under: Books, History Tagged With: Books, Suffrage Movement, womens history

Public Sculpture, Suffrage on Rockland History Podcast

October 1, 2020 by Clare Sheridan Leave a Comment

crossroads of rockland historyThe 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

Filed Under: History, Hudson Valley - Catskills Tagged With: Historical Society of Rockland County, Podcasts, Rockland County, Suffrage Movement, womens history

Votes for Women: Exhibit Headed to East Hampton

September 2, 2020 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

College women picketing at the White House courtesy the SmithsonianThe 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

Filed Under: Events, History, New York City Tagged With: East Hampton Historical Society, Political History, Suffrage Movement, womens history

Suffrage Centennial Program in Ticonderoga

August 25, 2020 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

celebration of the Suffrage CentennialThe 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

Filed Under: Adirondacks & NNY, Events, History Tagged With: Political History, Suffrage Movement, Ticonderoga, Ticonderoga Historical Society, womens history

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