NHD 2017: CMHEC Topic Ideas – Women, Gender, Feminism, Education

Last Updated on October 11, 2020

These curated resource lists coincide with the order of the topic ideas listed in the Chicago Metro History Fair (formerly CMHEC) NHD 2017 theme-related topic ideas. The links lead to resources from the Primary Source Nexus and the Library of Congress (LOC.gov) unless otherwise noted. Note: U.S. historic newspaper coverage is from 1789-1922 unless otherwise noted.

Chicago Women’s Clubs reform (Insane Asylum, Chicago Fire, Juvenile Court, discrimination)

• Annals of the Chicago Woman’s Club for the first forty years of its organization 1876-1916
• A Famous Club: Chicago Woman’s Club Celebrates Twenty-fifth Anniversary The Minneapolis Journal. (Minneapolis, Minn.), 20 Feb. 1901
• Chicago Woman’s Club Gives Object Lesson for Others The San Francisco (San Francisco [Calif.]), 25 July 1904
• Women’s Department (Cook County Insane Asylum & Chicago Women’s Club) The Midland Monthly Volume 8, No. 5 November, 1897
• Women’s City Club May Come into Its Own The Sun (New York [N.Y.]), 17 Feb. 1918
• Today in History: Great Chicago Fire
• Introduction to Clubwomen & The General Federation of Women’s Clubs (GFWC) National Women’s History Museum
• Women’s clubs primary source set
• General Federation of Women’s Clubs primary source set
• General Federation of Women’s Clubs historic newspaper coverage
• Primary Source Spotlight: Black Women’s Clubs

Jane Addams

Women at the World’s Fair

• A Souvenir of World’s Fair Women and Wives of Prominent Officials Connected with the World’s Columbian Exposition 1892
• Samantha at the World’s Fair by Josiah Allen’s wife (Marietta Holley)
• Woman’s Building, World Columbian Exposition 1893 (photo)
• Women in Session: First Meeting of the World’s Congress Auxiliary Rock Island Daily Argus (Rock Island, Ill.), 15 May 1893
• Short Skirts and Bloomers The Indianapolis (Indianapolis [Ind.]), 21 May 1893
• The Great Fair at Chicago The Indianapolis (Indianapolis [Ind.]), 21 May 1893
• Right Here I See My Own Books: The Woman’s Building Library at the World’s Columbian Exposition 2012/03/02 (streaming webcast)

Suffrage Activism

• Primary Source Spotlight: Ida B. Wells
• Primary Source Spotlight: Frances Willard & the WCTU
• Mrs. Catherine Waugh McCulloch, Justice of the Peace of Evanston, Ill. (portrait)
• Catherine Waugh McCulloch historic newspaper coverage
• Catherine Waugh McCullough historic newspaper coverage
• Open Collections Program: Women Working, Catharine Gouger Waugh McCulloch Harvard University
• Grace Wilbur Trout (portrait)
• Board of Directors National League of Women Voters–Chicago Convention (photograph)
• Told her the bill was lost. She cried (illustration)
• Grace Wilbur Trout historic newspaper coverage
• Grace Wilbur Trout (brochure) Iowa Digital Library (brochure)
• Grace Wilbur Trout (bio) Jacksonville Historical Society
• Julia Lathrop primary source set
• Julia Lathrop historic newspaper coverage
• Justice, Not Pity: Julia Lathrop, First Chief of the U.S. Children’s Bureau streaming webcast
• Julia Lathrop and the Children’s Bureau U.S. National Library of Medicine

ERA

• Demonstrators opposed to the ERA in front of the White House
• Activist Phyllis Schafly wearing a “Stop ERA” badge 1977 Feb. 4
• ERA newspaper page (.pdf) St. Petersburg Times October 17, 1979 (bibliographic record)
• The Equal Rights Amendment : guaranteeing equal rights for women under the Constitution June, 1981
• The impact of the Equal Rights Amendment : hearings before the Subcommittee on the Constitution of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate 1985
• Equal Rights Amendment legislation 1973 – present
• Brief introduction to the failed Equal Rights Amendment
• Betty Friedan

Margaret Haley

• Margaret Haley historic newspaper coverage
• Margaret Haley (bio) PBS
• Report, showing results of fifteen years of organization, to the teachers of Chicago 1908 Chicago Teachers’ Federation
• Chicago Teachers’ Federation historic newspaper coverage
• Historical sketch of the CTF Chicago Historical Society/Chicago History Museum

John Dewey

• John Dewey, education historic newspaper coverage
• Woman Suffrage By Prof. John Dewey (1909 newspaper clipping)
• John Dewey’s Logical Theory (1919 dissertation)
• O man! Dedicated to George Santayana, John Dewey, and Rev. Dr. John Haynes Holmes (1943 poem broadside)
• John Dewey, Philosophy and Education The University of Chicago Faculty: A Centennial View
• John Dewey (bio & background) Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Ella Flagg Young

• Ella Flagg Young primary source set
• Ella Flagg Young historic newspaper coverage
• Ella Flagg Young bio Illinois Education Association via YouTube
• Ella Flagg Young: Portrait of a Leader Joan Karen Smith 1976 Iowa State University Digital Repository

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