The National Collaborative for Women’s History Sites (NCWHS) is a non-profit that supports and promotes the preservation and interpretation of sites and locales that bear witness to women’s participation in American life. The Collaborative makes women’s contributions to history visible so that all women’s experiences and potential are fully valued.
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New Historic Marker Program Celebrates Women’s Suffrage History in United States The centennial of women’s suffrage in the United State is approaching in 2020. With this landmark anniversary, the National…
Trail Highlights
Votes for Women National Trail In honor of the August 26, 2020 centennial celebration of women’s suffrage in the United States, NCWHS is leading the effort to develop a National…
Partner Profile
The National Trust for Historic Preservation has entered into a partnership with the National Collaborative for Women’s History Sites to identify, save, and educate the public about American women’s history through women’s sites. Our…
Suffrage Profile
Frances Willard (September 28, 1839 – February 17, 1898) was an American educator, temperance reformer, and women's suffragist. Willard became the national president of Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) in 1879, and remained president until her death in…
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Overlooked No More: Laura de Force Gordon, Suffragist, Journalist and Lawyer
Gordon was speaking from experience when, in 1893, she described in a speech how “society has sneered at learned women.” She spent decades trying to change that.
nytimes.com
51 Percent of Nev. State Legislators Are Women
Western states took the lead in the women’s suffrage movement more than a century ago. Long before Congress acted and the 19th Amendment was passed, individual states gave women the right to vote.
newsmax.com
Women have been voting for 100 years — as long as it took to win the war for suffrage
Professor and scholar Ellen Fitzpatrick looks back at the long march to suffrage, California’s vital part in it and the battles that remain unknown.
latimes.com
The women who made Edgar Allan Poe
Behind every man is a woman who helped shape his life, and Edgar Allan Poe is no exception.
riverdalepress.com
Michigan Women's Historical Center moving back downtown after merger with Detroit nonprofit
The Michigan Women's Museum and Entrepreneur Institute of Mid-Michigan were acquired by a Detroit nonprofit. Both operate from Allegan Street office.
lansingstatejournal.com
The Word for Women in 2019: Defiance
On the first day of this year (2019), five million women in the state of Kerala formed a human chain which that stretched for 385 miles. In face of increasing backlash, defiance is probably what we need this year to assert the progress we have made thus far.
forbes.com
