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Happy National #LibraryWorkersDay! A special shout-out to our dedicated #SchlesingerLibrary staff members, who work tirelessly to preserve and connect researchers to the complicated history of women, gender, and society in America. 📚
At 4 PM ET TODAY, join us for the opening event of a new exhibition at our #SchlesingerLibrary.
In Their Own Voices: Black Women's Lives from the Archives celebrates the power of Black women defining themselves. https://t.co/mkju4A8zHu
Dean Tomiko Brown-Nagin, a constitutional scholar, appears in the film, which also heavily covers the efforts of the Boston educator and advocate Ruth Batson, who pushed for school desegregation—and whose papers are in our #SchlesingerLibrary.
In her new role at the @RadInstitute, Patrice Green, ’19 MLIS alumna, will help create a more inclusive historical record as the curator for African American and African Diasporic Collections at the Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America ➡️ https://t.co/NV2VQMHjjZ
Here, Jane Kamensky, faculty director of the #SchlesingerLibrary, provides some cultural (and archival) context for the famous #Barbie. https://t.co/WZpoaGtagn
It’s a #Barbie world! Love her or hate her, the plastic doll is a global phenomenon—but how did she get her start? The backstory can be found in the papers of her creator, Ruth Handler, which are housed in our #SchlesingerLibrary. https://t.co/3r03sbvekm
#Barbie's having a moment—and you can find out how it all started at our #SchlesingerLibrary. https://t.co/oAFKLmWRqU
61 Years Ago Today, on #ThisDayInHistory, #President #JohnFKennedy meets with Chairwoman of Chinese Refugee Relief, Anna C. Chennault at The @WhiteHouse on June 2, 1962 🇺🇸🌏 @JFKLibrary @JFKonThisDay @RadInstitute @WhiteHouseHstry #JFK #POTUS #POTUS35 #1960s #Sixties #History
Today, we celebrate all the graduating students who have come through Radcliffe Yard—including our RRPs, ELP mentors, #SchlesingerLibrary researchers, Radcliffe graduate student fellows, and grant recipients. You did it! #Harvard23
Jane Kamensky—who directs our #SchlesingerLibrary—reviews a new, "deeply researched and encyclopedic" history of women in the newsroom. https://t.co/tSUyxzndVt
Solidarity! Transnational Feminisms Then and Now opened TODAY at the #SchlesingerLibrary. It explores global feminist solidarity while highlighting the role of iconography in transnational feminist and women of color activism from the 1970s to the present. https://t.co/kbm64LOb6B
My first post-pandemic archives dive, into the papers of the the Woman’s National Farm and Garden Association (my current project) held at the #SchlesingerLibrary at @RadInstitute. My favorite “find”: an ad for the 1917 conference (held in sweet home Chicago!).
What do you know about Phillis Wheatley?
Our #SchlesingerLibrary holds a 1778 copy of her collection Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral—once part of Sarah Wyman Whitman's library. https://t.co/1hj4BTINyP
Today, in honor of #InternationalWomensDay, we offer a preview of Solidarity! Transnational Feminisms Then and Now. The upcoming exhibition features 50 years of transnational feminist collections held at the #SchlesingerLibrary. https://t.co/kbm64LOIW9
Happy #PresidentsDay! Known federally as Washington's Birthday, the holiday has expanded to honor Abraham Lincoln (also born in February) & other American presidents.
Here, from the #SchlesingerLibrary's Blackwell Family Papers, a Lincoln family portrait found in Emily's desk.
Happy #ValentinesDay! Our #SchlesingerLibrary holds over 1,000 works of romance fiction spanning more than a century and covering a variety of subgenres—from paranormal romances to erotic fiction. These are available for in-library use. https://t.co/vckDk0YHAf
Can’t make it to The #AgeofRoe exhibition at the #SchlesingerLibrary? Experience it online. https://t.co/rcP0wuq74y
A leading expert on US abortion law, @maryrziegler curated The #AgeofRoe exhibition at our #Schlesingerlibrary. Her history of the landmark decision was published earlier this week. https://t.co/uXAoo4MKmt
See the Joshua Prager Collection on Norma McCorvey and Roe v. Wade at our #SchlesingerLibrary. https://t.co/yapoehoapg
Jane Kamensky, director of our #SchlesingerLibrary and a Harvard history prof, defends "slow" history at #AHA23—and calls for its funding. https://t.co/yCxHICbnc9
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