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ARTICLE: “Whitman, Melville & Julia Ward Howe: A Tale of Three Bicentennials

By Elaine Showalter, New York Review of Books, May 27, 2019

Era: Post-Suffrage Era | Media: Magazines, Music, Poetry, Web-based

May 27, 2019 For the New York Review of Books, author Elaine Showalter writes of the three literary bicentennials of 2019 and the excursions, conferences and exhibitions mounted to celebrate […] Read More

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VIDEO, PANEL: “Women and the Vote: the 19th Amendment, Power, Media, and the Making of a Movement”

US National Archives, "Rightfully Hers" Exhibition Program, May 16, 2019

Era: Post-Suffrage Era | Media: Panel Discussion, Video

From the US National Archives promotion for the panel, presented by the 2020 Women’s Vote Centennial Initiative and the National Women’s History Project: “What methods did suffragists use to communicate […] Read More

Archival Collection

Exhibition: Votes for Women: A Portrait of Persistence

National Portrait Gallery: March 29-January 5, 2020

Era: Suffrage Era | Media: Curated Photos/Ephemera, Exhibition

Here you can read about the National Portrait Gallery’s suffrage centennial exhibition, “Votes for Women: A Portrait in Persistence.” From the website: “Through portraiture, biography, and material culture, the exhibition […] Read More

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Exhibition with VIDEO: the New York Society Library: Women Get the Vote: A Historic Look at the Nineteenth Amendment

"Women Get the Vote." New York Society Library. January 30 - August 30, 2019.

Era: Post-Suffrage Era, Suffrage Era | Media: Book-Non-Fiction, Curated Photos/Ephemera, Exhibition

The New York Society Library presented a new exhibit on women’s suffrage called “Women Get the Vote: A Historic Look at the Nineteenth Amendment.” On this page, find a rundown […] Read More

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VIDEO: “Women and the Vote: Opposition to Women’s Equality, from Suffrage to the ERA”

A panel at the US National Archives, December 6, 2018

Era: Post-Suffrage Era, Suffrage Era | Media: Author Interview, Book-Non-Fiction, Panel Discussion

From the US National Archives: “Leading up to the 100th anniversary of the passage of the 19th Amendment and the opening of the National Archives’s ‘Rightfully Hers’ exhibition in March […] Read More

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Activism Then and Now: the 1913 Suffrage Parade and the 2017 Women’s March

Mary Bowerman. "This isn’t the first time thousands of women have taken to the streets in D.C." USA Today, January 21, 2017.

Era: Post-Suffrage Era | Media: Newspapers, Pageants and Parades, Web-based

In this article for USA Today, journalist Mary Bowerman uses the Women’s March—the feminist protest held in Washington, DC and other cities the day after Donald Trump’s January 20, 2017 […] Read More