On March 15th the National Women’s History Museum (NWHM) held its annual Women Making History Awards. NWHW kindly invited the Congressional Commission on the American Museum of Women’s History (CCAMWH) to attend. Commissioner Maria Pesqueira and Commission Executive Director Wendy Pangburn were also invited to update the audience on the work of the independent Commission. Read More …
One of the Commission’s most important tasks is to gather the opinions of the public in regards to a potential American Museum of Women’s History. In order to do that we here at the Congressional Commission on an American Museum of Women’s History have been doing everything from frantically promoting our survey (if you haven’t Read More …
Microsoft recently announced their launch of a new campaign, “Make What’s Next” aimed at providing resources for young girls to pursue subjects in STEM. The company announced the campaign in a series of short videos that highlight lesser-known women inventors from history like Ada Lovelace, Tabitha Babbit, and Yvonne Brill. A huge component of the Read More …
Nancy Reagan, the influential wife of Ronald Reagan, will be buried alongside her husband at his presidential library today in Simi Valley, CA. Ms. Reagan passed away last Sunday at the age of 94. She served as First Lady from 1981-1989 and is widely credited with having a hand in her husband’s political success and Read More …
Makers is a woman-led web platform that features the stories of hundreds of remarkable women in video and other digital formats. Specifically, the web site serves as a portal into the lives of women from a variety of fields through interviews and short documentary clips. Women featured include: media moguls Oprah Winfrey and Ellen Degeneres, Read More …
On Wednesday, February 10, 2016, tennis legend Billie Jean King gave the keynote speech at an annual luncheon in Rochester, New York, in honor of trailblazing Suffragist Susan B. Anthony’s birthday. Susan B. Anthony is a native of Rochester, having lived there for over 50 years, and is currently buried at Mount Hope Cemetery in Read More …