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I had a nice virtual presentation with the Historical Society of Woodstock about Elisabeth Freeman. I made this video as part of that presentation and here it is: Enjoy!!! Thanks to Stephen Schweitzer for videography.
The Historical Society of Woodstock is sponsoring a talk on Elisabeth Freeman’s career as an organizer for several social justice causes. On May 19th there will be a zoom presentation and video showing the Freeman scrapbook which details English and US Suffrage, women’s garment workers and other labor issues, the anti-lynching campaign, and resistance to […]
One of my favorite TV shows is Henry Louis Gates’ “Finding Your Roots” where a couple of celebrities get the benefit of genealogical tools and DNA tracking to discover who their ancestors are and where they came from. Needless to say, it’s transformative for his guests, particularly black and brown people, whose histories were quite […]
I participated in a zoom presentation sponsored by the Historical Society of Woodstock. on Sat. Oct. 1oth called “Standing on Their Shoulders: 100 Years of Voting and Still Marching for Women’s Rights.” Elisabeth and Edna Kearns were the shoulders in this case and they both traveled about in horse drawn wagons to draw attention to […]
Hopefully you have seen the PBS American Experience two part series called The Vote. If not: Watch it! Stream it! Elisabeth was well represented in the series and I recall talking with the researchers a year ago or so. What a thrill it must be to put together a narrative like this! It’s a great […]
March 28, 2020 OK, so it’s the tail end of Women’s History Month, in the 100th Anniversary of Women’s Suffrage in the U.S., and Corona distractions be damned, I’m going to start this blog! I am fortunate to be the heir and keeper of Elisabeth Freeman’s papers, which consist primarily of a giant scrapbook of […]
