The NCWHS Women's Heritage Trails Committee, composed of members from throughout the U.S., is meeting monthly by conference call to find ways to collaborate as we develop women's history trails in cities and states.
Grace Hudson Museum and Sun House
This month's featured site . . .
Grace Hudson Museum and Sun House
Born to well-educated, socially-conscious pioneer parents in California’s rural Mendocino County, Grace Carpenter (1865-1937) showed an early talent for portraiture that was developed by professional training in San Francisco in the 1880s. In 1891, soon after her marriage, she painted a portrait of a sleeping California Indian child, “National Thorn," that was the first in a numbered series of over 684 oils, the last completed in 1935. Nearly all of her subjects were local Pomo Indian peoples. Hudson’s reputation as a painter was national during her lifetime; today her work enjoys renewed interest and recognition for its culturally accurate and sympathetic portrayals of native peoples.
Women’s history is everywhere. We find, save and share the historic sites that focus on our history. No American History without Women's History: No America without Women
The National Collaborative for Women’s History Sites (NCWHS) was created in October 2001 by representatives of more than twenty historical sites linked to American women and some twenty others from organizations devoted to preserving women’s history.
Women's History: Sites and Resources
The National Collaborative for Women's History Sites publishes Women's History: Sites and Resources, a 142-page reference designed for travelers, teachers, and students who want to discover more of American women's past. Edited by Heather A. Huyck, this book features forty women's history sites and projects, plus travel itineraries, teaching plans, and websites. For more information, or to purchase this reference guide, please visit:
March is Women's History Month
Jane Addams (left), Hull House, and Miss Elizabeth Burke, delegates to the 1911 Women's Suffrage Legislature, Chicago, Illinois. (Chicago Daily News Negatives Collection)
The National Collaborative for Women’s History Sites (NCWHS) is pleased to launch our new website during Women’s History Month.
Initially funded by a grant from the Northeast Regional Office of the National Park Service, the NCWHS supports and advocates the preservation and interpretation of places, collections, and organizations that bear witness to women's participation in American history.
The NCWHS Web Site
The Web site of the National Collaborative for Women's History Sites (http://www.ncwhs.org/) is copyright © NCWHS. All Rights Reserved. For more information, contact the NCWHS: c/o Grace Hudson House Museum and Sun House, 431 South Main, Ukiah, California 95482.
