Early in the 20th century, Sewall-Belmont House and Museum became the headquarters of the historic National Woman's Party, founded by suffragist Alice Paul. Today it operates as a nonprofit museum and research library.
Sewall-Belmont House and Museum
A New Perspective on Valley Forge
Do you think you know the whole story of Valley Forge?
See NCWHS Board Member Ajena Rogers in her interpretation of Hanna Till, an enslaved African American who cooked for General George Washington at Valley Forge. (Video courtesy of Valley Forge National Historical Park.)
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2011 Integrating Women's
History Workshop
The National Collaborative for Women's History Sites just held its successful workshop on integrating women's history prior to this year's Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, June 9-12.
Couldn't make the workshop? Sit back and enjoy the video! Read more >
Revealing Women's History:
Best Practices at Historic Sites, Featuring Five Case Studies
SEVERAL YEARS AGO, the National Collaborative for Women‘s History Sites (NCWHS), in partnership with the National Park Service Northeast Region, asked historic sites to nominate themselves as Best Practice Sites — those that exemplify ways to best preserve and interpret the past of half the human race: women and girls. Actually, every historic site is a women‘s history one, although too often people still don‘t recognize that. The NCWHS seeks to make visible the female part of humankind‘s history, or as historian Gerda Lerner once said, "the majority finds its past." We received numerous nominations and carefully read and evaluated every one of them. Working with a team of advisors, we winnowed the list to five, focusing in particular on those not seen primarily as "women‘s history sites." Experts visited each of the five, gathered information, evaluated each site using nine elements, and conducted extensive interviews with their staffs. Finally, we worked to identify practical "lessons" applicable elsewhere.
Select this link to read Revealing Women's History: Best Practices at Historic Sites. [PDF]
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October, 2011. The National Collaborative for Women's History sites just produced a brief commercial for Revealing Women's History: Best Practices at Historic Sites.
Sharing Her Stories through Heritage Trails A National Movement to Link Women’s History with Historic Sites
By Pam Elam, M.A. and Mary Melcher, Ph.D.
NCWHS Board Members
Women’s heritage trails are being developed across the United States to share women’s history with the public. From Maine to Florida, Arizona to New Jersey, organizations in cities and states are creating maps that link historic sites to inform the public about women’s stories. They’re creating websites, walking and driving trails and publications about women’s lives and history. Statewide trails are in the works or completed in New Jersey, Florida, Connecticut, Indiana, Arizona, Maryland, and New York. Several city-wide trails also exist, in places like Boston, Manhattan, and Portland, Maine. These trails have a variety of structures, funding sources and methods of interpretation.
NCWHS Women's Heritage Trails
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.
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 the University of Illinois Press:
