September 2018

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 [email protected].

Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture Mary Lily Research Grants:

https://library.duke.edu/rubenstein/bingham/grants

The Sallie Bingham Center provides research travel grants of up to $1,500 for researchers whose work would benefit from access to the women's history collections held at Duke University's Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library. The grants are named in honor of Mary Lily Kenan Flagler Bingham.

Perspectives on Women's Archives Selected for One Book, One Profession Reading Initiative by the Society of American Archivists:

https://www2.archivists.org/one-book-one-profession

The SAA Publications Board has selected Perspectives on Women's Archives, edited by Tanya Zanish-Belcher (the compiler of News from the Archives) and Anke Voss, for its One Book, One Profession reading initiative. The book features eighteen essays written by noted archivists and historians that illustrate the origins of a women-centered history, the urgent need to locate records that highlight the diverse experiences of women, and the effort to document women's experiences. Deftly examining American culture and society over the past few centuries, the essays also expose the need for renewed collaboration between archivists and historians, the challenges related to the accessibility of women's collections, and the development of community archives.

Study Guide Questions: https://www2.archivists.org/sites/all/files/SAA-StudyGuideQs-2018.pdf

Related articles: https://www2.archivists.org/Related-Readings-Perspectives-Womens-Archives

Purdue University Blog Dedicated to Women's Archives and Collections

http://blogs.lib.purdue.edu/asc/category/womens-archives/

This blog includes selection from women's collections as part of Tales From Purdue University Archives and Special Collections, ranging from Amelia Earhart to Kassandra "Katie" Agee Chandler, Purdue's first African-American Homecoming Queen.

Women and Leadership Archives, Loyola University
Jean Fritz Journals on Display at the Edgewater Historical Society

On August 26, 2018, the Edgewater Historical Society will be presenting a new exhibit entitled, "The Chicago Conspiracy Trial: One Juror's Ordeal." Jean Fritz, who grew up in Edgewater, was a juror on the trial. The jury was sequestered for four and a half months and she kept journals, which will be donated to the Women and Leadership Archives with other materials after the exhibit concludes. Her journals are a "unique testament to a unique moment in American history. They are also the record of one woman's struggle with the ideas of justice, democracy and her own role as a citizen" (Chicago Tribune)