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Activism and Scholarship: A Conference Honoring Amy Swerdlow and Gerda Lerner
15th Annual Women’s History Conference at Sarah Lawrence College
March 1-2, 2013
Free and Open to the Public
Featuring: The keynote Address by Women’s Historian Alice Kessler Harris, distinguished professor at Columbia University and Author of A Difficult Woman The Challenging Life and Times of [...]

http://greenfield.brynmawr.edu/
Developed at Bryn Mawr College, the site will serve scholars in the US and across the world by providing free, open access to materials related to the history of women’s education. The site is a portal to a wide range of digitized items selected from our collections, as well as materials that we are featuring [...]

AUTUMN GEM: A Documentary on Modern China’s First Feminist explores the life of the “Chinese Joan of Arc” Qiu Jin, radical women’s rights activist and leader of a revolutionary army. Free screenings in San Francisco Bay Area March – May 2012.

Inspiring Women: Selected Designers from Parsons’ Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Archives
As students, teachers, mentors and professionals, women from Parsons have been at the forefront of design study and practice since the school’s founding in 1896. INSPIRING WOMEN offers glimpses into the education and professional lives of 16 women who attended and taught at Parsons between [...]

A special section on Women’s History has been added to HistoryNet, Website of the world’s largest publisher of history-oriented magazines.