NEWS FROM THE ARCHIVES
News from the Archives provides readers with news concerning U.S. Women's History from archives and repositories with collections and projects of interest. If you are affiliated with an archive or repository and would like to submit an announcement that you feel would be of interest to our readers, please contact Tanya Zanish-Belcher at zanisht@wfu.edu.
Iowa Women's Archives (University of Iowa)
The Iowa Women's Archives celebrated its 25th anniversary with a special symposium, an exhibition featuring 25 collections from a total of 1,200, and celebratory events:
http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/iwa/25-years/
Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America
Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study (Harvard University)
Angela Y. Davis, activist and scholar has donated her papers to the Schlesinger Library at Harvard University. The collection of Davis's work includes letters, photographs, and audio from Davis's radio show "Angela Speaks," according to a press release from the library. The library will also host materials related to Davis's incarceration and trial from the Soledad Prison case, as well as the movement advocating for her release. Davis's papers will be available for research by 2020.
Special Collections (Smith College, Northampton, MA)
Special Collections, consisting of the Sophia Smith Collection of Women's History, the College Archives, and the Mortimer Rare Book Collection, is in the midst of a major renovation scheduled to be completed in 2020. Collections are still available, please see additional information here:
https://www.smith.edu/libraries/special-collections/about-special-collections/renovation-transition
National Endowment for the Humanities (2017 funded projects):
Jamaica Kincaid Documentary, Women Make Movies, Inc.
New York, NY
Development of an 86-minute documentary film on the life and accomplishments of Jamaica Kincaid, an Antiguan-born novelist and poet.
The 19th Amendment, City Lore: NY Center for Urban Folk Culture
New York, NY
Production of a four-hour documentary film about the efforts to pass the Nineteenth Amendment for women's voting rights (1909-20).
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