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1980s street photograph from Queens of two women wearing saris, with text that says "Show Us Your Sari: Share your memories and photograpjs for the upcoming exhibition The New York Sari" with the logo of The New York Historical

And as part of the exhibit, we want to hear about what the sari means to you: forms.gle/h1jvPZKt78Cy...

1980s street photograph from Queens of two women wearing saris, with text that says "Show Us Your Sari: Share your memories and photograpjs for the upcoming exhibition The New York Sari" with the logo of The New York Historical

And as part of the exhibit, we want to hear about what the sari means to you: forms.gle/h1jvPZKt78Cy...

The first media article is out about our upcoming Center for Women's History at The New York Historical's exhibit, The New York Sari! www.timeout.com/newyork

Call for Applications: Editorial Fellowships at History Workshop, 2025 History Workshop is advertising two part-time, paid Editorial Fellowships in 2025, open to early career historians.

Join us! We are advertising two part-time, paid Editorial Fellowships at History Workshop in 2025-27.

Our fellowships support early career historians to develop expertise in public, radical and digital history & to gain experience of working in an editorial team.
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Reading a 1939 article about a archival collection I'm about to dig into today: "Their [love] letters, still preserved in the New York Historical Society, may be consulted by the serious student, or by the sentimental busybody who looks like a serious student."

WHICH, pray tell, am I??

Nursing Clio is seeking three new staff members: one Book Reviews Editor and two new Editors!

We are a volunteer-run, open access, collaborative blog project that ties historical scholarship to current political, social, and cultural issues related to gender and medicine.

Please share widely!

My heart breaks for trans kids, who do not deserve this obsessive animus that adults are directing at them.

I'm excited to talk to Angelica De Vido about her research on women's activism in 20th century NYC tomorrow evening! www.nyhistory.org/programs/fel...

About this Collection | Chronicling America | Digital Collections | Library of Congress Search America's Historic Newspaper Pages through 1963 Please Note: The Library of Congress has transitioned the longstanding Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers website to this new digi...

Some sad confirmation from @bcgl.bsky.social while I was at UW last week—the National Digital Newspaper Program—which builds Chronicling America—has been shut down

Historical newspapers are probably the archival material most used by the general public—for genealogy, local history—it’s such a loss

Did you know the UK has the worst record on homelessness in the OECD? Some reflections on both the numbers and the people who lay behind them

Hi Bingley! What a lucky pup you are with Keith and Laura, and handsome!

@jwomenshistory.bsky.social welcomes applications for 2025 Scholars Research Grants to support travel, research, or writing in women's and gender history. Deadline 23 May 25. 🗃️

See jwomenshistory.org/announcements/ for more information.

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If you have responses to late breaking stories related to health, medicine, disability and/or gender, we want them! We can get timely essays out quick. Great way to provide vital context while venting your rage.

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Are you a history professor who has been pressured to alter your curriculum — particularly regarding the history of Black & African American people in the United States?

We would love to talk to you. Send us a DM!

a polar bear cub is laying in a pile of hay ALT: a polar bear cub is laying in a pile of hay

Cory Booker: "I don't want a Disney vacation of our history! I don't a whitewashed history, I don't want a homogenized history. Tell me the wretched truth about America."

Historians, crawling back into daylight from the depths of despair: "Did somebody somewhere ask for some wretched truth?"

Among other things, an attack that clarifies how much public history matters, how much power is linked to the stories we tell about the past #NCPH2025

I’m the Director of the Center for Historical Studies at Northwestern and also a gender historian. If I thought for a minute that our administration had cancelled this conference for political reasons I would be complaining, loudly. But this is not an accurate representation of what happened.

We are deeply saddened to announce that the 2026 Big Berks has been cancelled due to a lack of location. This was an extremely hard decision to make and please know that we explored many options. The biggest difficulty right now in finding a new venue is time.

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Tomorrow!

Coming up this Sunday!

Coming up this Sunday!

Last weekend to apply for our Center for Women's History postdoctoral and predoctoral fellowships!

Last weekend to apply for our Center for Women's History postdoctoral and predoctoral fellowships!

Join us for our 10th annual Diane and Adam E. Max Conference on Women's History! www.nyhistory.org/womens-histo...

National Stonewall Monument Response Letter Letter on the National Park Service Modifications to the National Stonewall Monument Web Pages Signatures closed at 5 P.M. EST on February 19, 2025. If you are a journalist writing about this issue o...

300+ leading historians and scholars of gender and sexuality respond to Trump admin's removal of references to transgender people from the National Stonewall Monument.

This action " is unfounded in historical fact and distorts the legacy" of Stonewall.

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Join us for our 10th annual Diane and Adam E. Max Conference on Women's History! www.nyhistory.org/womens-histo...

Apply by Feb 23! www.nyhistory.org/careers/fell...