2022 Annual Membership Virtual Meeting
thsadmin2022-06-09T09:45:16-06:00We invite you to register for the 173rd Annual Membership Meeting, when we will vote on the officers and directors for 2022–23. Following our [...]
We invite you to register for the 173rd Annual Membership Meeting, when we will vote on the officers and directors for 2022–23. Following our [...]
As attitudes about women’s roles in the public sphere evolved, society itself began to transform. “Transforming Space and Culture in Tennessee’s Town Squares: The [...]
What was written about the suffragists and what did they write about themselves? “Suffrage in Tennessee Hometown Newspapers” Dr. Melony Shemberger is Associate Professor [...]
Women of the late 1800s and early 1900s spoke their truth to their detriment and often to their intense ridicule. “African American Women Educators [...]
Nashville boasted scores of women’s clubs, some of which are still active. “Nashville Clubwomen in the Progressive Era: More than the UDC” Dr. John [...]
During the Progressive Era, women made societal changes, while trying to balance and stretch their traditional roles. “County Women in Rural Tennessee: The Suffrage [...]
By today’s standards, the label “progressive” can apply to women both conservative and liberal. After the Civil War, women from both ends of the [...]
Women’s clubs, founded to promote education and community service, challenged members to influence public policy. “ ‘Strength in Union’: Lizzie Crozier French and the [...]
In 1894, Callie Guy House, a formerly enslaved woman, organized efforts to petition the US government for wages for unpaid slave labor. In the [...]
This session will discuss agricultural reform work by the forerunners of the modern 4-H movement and the progressive impulse to teach women to lift [...]
M-F 8:00 am – 4:30 pm
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