Monumental Women

06/07/2026

Don't miss "Revolutionary Women" a new exhibit on now through October 25. Though their stories are often overlooked, women were influential participants in the American Revolution, contributing to the fight for independence while helping build the new nation.

05/31/2026

Heather Cox Richardson's team is putting together 1-minute videos telling the real story of how Americans have always worked, often against seemingly insurmountable odds, to create a more perfect Union. Take a look and share. https://www.instagram.com/p/DYwzmvujIjh/

05/17/2026

National Woman's Party activists watch Alice Paul sew a star onto the NWP Ratification Flag, representing another state's ratification of the 19th Amendment.
Women of Protest: Photographs from the Records of the National Woman's Party, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/mnwp.160073

05/07/2026

Be sure to catch 2024 Moving History Forward award recipient performance this Friday May 8.

05/02/2026

Built in 1855, and originally headed by the great educational reformer, Lydia Fowler Wadleigh, the building at 34 1/2 East 12th St. has been landmarked since 1998. Now has initiated a campaign to finally get the it repaired.

04/28/2026

Another step forward in making black women's history visible in public spaces. Congratulations!

For Baskerville, Montclair’s first Black woman elected mayor, the moment carried personal meaning. She said the YWCA helped her and her twin sister build confidence and find community as girls.

04/27/2026

Loss of another pioneer of the "second wave" women's movement Sonia Pressman Fuentes. May she rest in power.

In a conversation with the feminist writer Betty Friedan, she planted the seed that became the National Organization for Women.

04/19/2026

For over 70 years Carol Geitzer was a pioneering NYC political reformer and women's right advocate. As Council member she worked alongside Jane Jacobs to preserve the historic charm of Greenwich Village by taking on Robert Moses and the Tammy Hall political machine.

04/11/2026

Visit the site of 13 time Grammy award winning singer Ella Fitzgerald home from 1949-1967 at 179-07 Murdock Ave. in Queens, NY. It's part of Women's Rights Trail.