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The folks who brought you Women's History Month! The NWHA is an educational nonprofit organization dedicated to Writing Women Back into History.

Promoting the importance of education, equality & inclusion. Follow us on Instagram, Linked In & Twitter! The National Women's History Alliance successfully lobbied Congress in 1987 to establish March as National Women's History Month. Our Mission: Writing Women Back into History! Education & event resources available on our website. Read our blog: http://www.nwha1980.org

Donate to help support our cause here!: https://national-womens-history-alliance.mybigcommerce.com/donation-nwha-membership/

10/20/2026

SAVE THE DATE: Honoring Gloria Steinem and Robin Morgan by telling our stories.

“When we tell our stories, we are not alone.” -Gloria Steinem

Join the National Women’s History Alliance for a special gathering honoring Gloria Steinem and Robin Morgan and the lasting impact of their work on the women’s movement.

Come together in community to reflect on what these remarkable women have meant to you, how their words and work have influenced your life, and the moments of awareness, those powerful “click” moments, that changed your perspective.

Whether you have a personal connection to their work, a story to share, or simply wish to listen, all are welcome. Through shared reflections, personal stories, and readings from their writings, we will celebrate their legacies and help preserve an important chapter of women’s history.

Registration is FREE but required: https://zoom.us/j/94382151230?pwd=IrWeAWse7WDmaRJTGfkJZiON47hgYE.1&jst=2

The session will be recorded and released to those who register.
Monday, October 26: 4 pm PT, 6pm CT, 7pm ET.

10/16/2026

As Hispanic Heritage Month comes to a close, we celebrate the Latina women who broke barriers, fought for equality, and helped shape history.

To learn more about women's history, go to the National Women's History Alliance at https://nationalwomenshistoryalliance.org !

10/15/2026

Did you know?

The Worlds’ default to male biology, data, and experiences including everyday objects, environments, and medical protocols that have historically been designed without accounting for women’s bodies and wellbeing.

Join us along this series as we explore the different ways men have been prioritized over women in our daily lives.

Series created and written by NWHA Youth Board Member, Victoria Helali.

10/14/2026

SAVE THE DATE! California Women Win the Vote : Film Screening and Panel Discussion

This Sunday, October 18, 2026, at 5:30 PM PST, join us at the Pasadena Museum of History to celebrate the 115th anniversary of California women winning the vote with a special screening and panel discussion of California Women Win the Vote (2011).

The 29-minute film tells an enterprising and dramatic story of how women in California campaigned and invented tactics to win suffrage in 1911 – nine years before the rest of the nation. The film features live reenactments and stock footage, plus historical material – including scrapbooks – from Pasadena Museum of History’s Research Library and Archives.

Screening of California Women Win the Vote will begin at 5:30 pm followed by a panel
discussion with Film Director, Martha Wheelock; actors, Maggie Macallister and Amy
Simon; Award-winning Journalist, Ellen Snortland; and PMH Director of Collections,
Anuja Navare.

Presented by Wild West Women Films

Galleries open before and after screening; Tea reception. Space is limited; advance reservations required.

REGISTER : https://www.eventbrite.com/e/california-women-win-the-vote-film-screening-and-panel-discussion-tickets-2000654128354?aff=oddtdtcreator

General Admission: $18 | PMH / NWHA Members: $13

Location: Pasadena Museum of History: 470 W. Walnut Street , Pasadena CA
91103

09/03/2026

The National Women’s History Alliance joins people across the nation and around the world in remembering Gloria Steinem, feminist, journalist, author, organizer, and one of the most influential voices of the modern women’s movement.

For more than six decades, Gloria used the power of words, organizing, and collective action to challenge inequality and expand opportunities for women. She helped co-found Ms. magazine and the National Women’s Political Caucus, and devoted her life to ensuring that women’s experiences, voices, and rights could no longer be pushed to the margins.

Her place in women’s history is not defined by one organization, one campaign, or one generation. It lives in the countless women she encouraged to speak, lead, question, organize, and believe in their own power to create change.

Today, we honor Gloria Steinem not only for the history she made, but for the generations she inspired to keep making it.

Thank you, Gloria, for a lifetime of courage, conviction, and an unwavering belief in equality. Your legacy lives on.

08/24/2026

Who is Amalia Mesa-Bains?

Amalia Mesa-Bains, born on July 10, 1943, is a pioneering Chicana artist, activist, and scholar whose work blends installation, altar-making traditions, and feminist scholarship. Her art centers memory, identity, and ancestral storytelling, offering powerful reflections on the experiences of Mexican-American women and the importance of cultural reclamation.

To learn more about women's history, go to the National Women's History Alliance at https://nationalwomenshistoryalliance.org !

Picture Credits: Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum & Rena Bransten Gallery

08/23/2026

SAVE THE DATE!

On August 25th, 2026, at 4PM PST (6PM CT, 7PM EST), join historian and author Amanda Owen, author of The Justice Bell: Tracing the Journey of a Forgotten Symbol, for an exploration of how suffragists used a Liberty Bell replica as a dramatic, attention-getting symbol in their fight for the vote. Owen will share how she discovered the forgotten story of the Justice Bell and what its history reveals about the ways women’s stories can disappear from our collective memory, and how we can bring them back.

The webinar will also explore the lasting impact of the 19th Amendment and what its legacy means for women and democracy today.

Registration is free, but advance registration is required.

RESERVE YOUR SPOT : https://zoom.us/meeting/register/JEWQAyQOR_-8boynpu3vpQ #/registration

Can’t attend live?
Register and we’ll send you a link to the recording of the session afterward.

08/14/2026

Who was Margaret Angela Haley?

Margaret Angela Haley, born November 15th 1861, was an American educator and key union organizer for Chicago public school teachers. After teaching in schools across the city, she became a pioneering member and a district vice president of the Chicago Teacher’s Federation. Haley later also became president of the National Federation of Teachers, a role in which she lobbied to make the college-administrator dominated, larger and more important National Education Association respond to the needs of grade school staff. Over the course of her life, she championed salary increases, a state pension plan, and tenure laws for teachers. Haley also used her organization to support woman’s suffrage, child labour reforms and American democracy more widely.

To learn more about women's history, go to the National Women's History Alliance at https://nationalwomenshistoryalliance.org !

Picture Credits: Chicago History Museum

08/13/2026

Happy Birthday, Leonora Barry!

Leonora Barry, born August 13th 1849, was an Irish-American labour investigator and activist. Born in County Cork, Ireland, she emigrated with her family as a child. After being widowed and left with a young family to support, Barry worked as a seamstress and in a hosiery mill, and it was this experience with bad conditions and poor pay which inspired her to join the Knights of Labor.

She was a key figure in the organization’s establishment of a Women’s Department of Work, where she collected data from cities across the United States and lobbied to help women in the unskilled industrial workforce. As the first woman paid to be a labor investigator, her research increased awareness about the harsh work environments faced by women and children.

Her work led to the first factory inspection act in Pennsylvania in 1889. Barry continued her social advocacy work after resigning from the Knights, championing temperance and women’s suffrage.

To learn more about women's history, go to the National Women's History Alliance at https://nationalwomenshistoryalliance.org !

Picture Credits: The Catholic University of America

08/12/2026

This summer, pick a new book to enjoy!

The story of women’s great quest for democracy is told in a compelling way with more than 960 historical photographs and original documents that bring the grassroots movement alive in “Winning the Vote: The Triumph of the American Woman Suffrage Movement,” by Robert P. J. Cooney, Jr. .

This book reflects 12 years of work, the advice of experts in the field, and rarely seen visual material from throughout the country. This independently produced, 496-page book was named one of the “Five Best Books” on the subject and has been lauded by curators as ”the Bible of the suffrage movement.”

Order through the National Women’s History Alliance: https://lnkd.in/en9fhEcf or contact [email protected].

A deluxe Special Edition is also available for display, presentations and special collections, limited to 100 signed and numbered copies, bound in purple silk cloth and housed in a matching, gold-embossed slipcase with an exclusive opening photographic essay. ISBN 0-9770095-1-3 $250.00

For more information, visit https://lnkd.in/gwEXa4JD

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