Remembering New York Designer Eva Zeisel
By Timothy Wroten For the world of American art and design, last week was marked by the passing of illustrious designer and ceramicist Eva Zeisel, who was 105. The New-York Historical Society Museum...
View ArticleEdith Wharton and the Beauties of the Gilded Age
Today, the New York Times wishes a happy upcoming 150th birthday to Edith Wharton, the author of such works as the Age of Innocence and The Buccaneers, which ripped into the culture and practices of...
View ArticleVotes For Women! When Congress Approved The 19th Amendment
On June 4, 1919, the US Congress approved the 19th Amendment, which granted suffrage to women. The Amendment was not ratified by the states until August 18, 1920, but the approval was a huge victory...
View Article1915: Women March For Suffrage in New York City
On October 23, 1915, over 25,000 women marched up Fifth Avenue in New York City to advocate for women’s suffrage. At that point, the fight had been ongoing for more than 65 years, with the Seneca Falls...
View ArticleThe 1970 Women’s March for Equality in NYC
To kick-off our celebration of Women’s Herstory Month, let’s travel back to the groovy days of 1970. Pervasive inequality pushed the Second-wave Feminist Movement forward into the next decade. Its...
View ArticleClara Driscoll and the Tiffany Girls
To celebrate the opening of our newest special installation Nature Illuminated: A Tiffany Gallery Preview, the exhibition’s curator who is also the Curator of Decorative Arts here at New-York...
View ArticleMeet Audubon’s Assistant Painter: Maria Martin Bachman
Currently on display at New-York Historical is the final installment of the three-year series featuring all of John James Audubon’s original watercolor models for The Birds of America. Because of their...
View ArticleProtect Our Brassieres! WWII’s War On Lingerie
When World War II broke out, men and women were both expected to give their all to support the war effort. For many women, that meant joining the ranks of the WAVES or becoming a defense worker....
View Article5,000 Lanterns: The Radicalism of Suffrage Parades
This week’s guest blogger is N-YHS Bernard and Irene Schwartz Postdoctoral Fellow, Dr. Lauren Santangelo. If you’re interested in learning more about New York women’s history, stay tuned! In early...
View ArticleHappy Birthday, Women’s Suffrage!
This week the 19th Amendment, granting American women the right to vote, turned 95. To commemorate the victory, we’re continuing the tradition of the tenacious suffragettes. Join us tonight at 7 pm for...
View Article“Just Like Planning a Dinner Party”: When Computers Were Women’s Work
This week, we’re examining women’s pioneering role in computer programming. To learn more about tech history made in New York, check out our upcoming exhibit Silicon City, opening Friday, November 13....
View ArticleSuffrage on the Menu, Part II: The Marble House Conferences of 1909 and 1914
Written by Ina Bort Our last post explored the biography of Alva Vanderbilt Belmont, the doyenne-turned-activist we believe commissioned this plate’s manufacture. Today we explore the first of two...
View ArticleChristy Girls and Woman Workers: The Depiction of Women in World War I Posters
Written by Kelly Morgan Last week we looked at a few selections of World War I propaganda posters promoting enlistment culled from the New-York Historical Society. This week, we’ll examine how the...
View ArticleSuffrage on the Menu, Part III: Alva’s Political Equality Association Lunchroom
Written by Ina Bort In our last two posts, we explored the life of Alva Vanderbilt Belmont and dropped in at her Marble House suffrage conferences in Newport, where “Votes for Women” plates like this...
View ArticleCrystal Eastman and the Women’s Peace Movement
You have to think a little before you realize they want to talk peace and get ready to fight. – Crystal Eastman Benedict, chair of Woman’s Peace Party, in “Women Ridicule Security League,” The New York...
View ArticleToy Drives and Women’s Charitable Work in New York City
Toy drives are a beloved feature of the holiday season, and have been for over a century. In New York City, women have long been at the center of efforts to care for poor and orphaned children. In...
View ArticleEvent Recap: Women of the Village with Blanche Wiesen Cook and Lara Vapnek
On December 15, 2017, the Center for Women’s History at the New-York Historical Society hosted a Salon Conversation titled “Women of the Village.” A hearty crowd filled the Museum’s fourth-floor...
View ArticleWomen at the Center: Celebrating Our First Year at the Center for Women’s...
This year we opened the Center for Women’s History at the New-York Historical Society, the first institution of its kind within the walls of a major U.S. museum. Since then, we’ve been sharing the...
View Article“You Can’t Be What You Can’t See:” Teaching Women’s History
Currently, only 13 percent of the historical figures in history textbooks are women. Why does this matter? As one teacher put it, in his response to our national survey: “You can’t be what you can’t...
View ArticleWomen Marching, Then and Now
Women in New York City have a long history of taking to streets and stages to make their voices heard. The suffrage parades of the 1910s captured the attention of the city and helped convince men that...
View ArticleListening to Black Women’s Voices
What do diversity and inclusivity mean in a museum-based digital interactive installation? This question was central to the design of our Women’s Voices exhibit, a wall of touchscreens that allow...
View ArticleLeaders Among Us: Inspiring Women on Inspiring Women
Last year at the New-York Historical Society, we opened the Center for Women’s History—the first initiative within the walls of a major U.S. museum dedicated to sharing the untold stories of women...
View ArticleTechnology + Teens: Introducing N-YHS Tech Scholars
This past February, we brought history and technology together for our first cohort of Tech Scholars. Throughout this one-week program, we welcomed a group of 15 high school students from across the...
View ArticleSpring Tech Scholars Explore Women’s History
This spring, the Tech Commons @ N-YHS welcomed our second cohort of Tech Scholars. Young women grades 9-12 from four of the five boroughs came every day for a week to the Tech Commons to explore the...
View ArticleThe Palisades in Peril: Meet the Forgotten Women Who Fought to Save the Great...
The champion racing yacht Marietta set sail from Pier A in lower Manhattan on the chilly late morning of September 22, 1897. Mrs. Edith Gifford was aboard along with fellow members of the New Jersey...
View ArticleHistory at Home: 2 Public Programs About Women on the Supreme Court
To help stop the spread of COVID-19 in New York City, New-York Historical is temporarily closed to the public through the end of the month. Our Women March exhibition is off limits for the time being,...
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