The Wives (and Lives) of the Early Dutch Pastors – Janet Sheeres
START the new year with new women's history! On Saturday at 1:30pm, "The Wives (and Lives) of Early Dutch Pastors" -- Unlike the biographies of early male ministers of the […]
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Ryerson Auditorium, Grand Rapids Public Library 111 Library NE, Grand Rapids, MI, United States
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Elective Detectives & Crowdsourcing Grand Rapids Women’s History
Grand Rapids Public Library 111 Library NE, Grand Rapids, MI, United StatesAt History Detectives, the Grand Rapids Public Library’s day-long offering of local history programming, Julia Bouwkamp and Jo Ellyn Clarey will report on how the charting of 19th-century local women’s […]
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African Americans in Early Grand Rapids
Grand Rapids Public Library 111 Library NE, Grand Rapids, MI, United StatesAt History Detectives, GGRWHC’s Ruth Van Stee will present African Americans in Early Grand Rapids—including, of course, more women’s history. From 1850 to 1920 African Americans here were a steady one […]
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A Team of Her Own: Minnie Forbes & Negro League Baseball
Grand Rapids Public Library 111 Library NE, Grand Rapids, MI, United StatesThe last female owner of a Negro League baseball team will talk with former Grand Rapids Press columnist Jaye Beeler at Taste of Soul Sunday about playing softball at fifteen […]
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Links to the Local: Building a National Women’s Elective History
GVSU, Allendale Campus, Kirkhof Center, RM2270The historical charting of Grand Rapids women's runs for public office upends conventional wisdom and offers surprises about dates, the numbers of races, and the identities of women who participated […]
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Atmosphere of Distinction
Holland Museum 31 W. 10th Street, Holland, MI, United StatesOpen to the public on March 2! During the twentieth century, women throughout the country took great strides toward equality and began abandoning their traditional roles, as well as restrictive fashions, […]
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Author Lecture with Rebecca Traister
GVSU, Allendale Campus, Kirkhof Center, Grand River RoomCommunity Reading Projects Author Lecture with Rebecca Traister, author of All the Single Ladies! Door open at 6:00pm, book signing will follow the lecture. Free and Open to the Public!
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The GGRWHC Annual Reception
John F. Donnelly Conference Center at Aquinas CollegeThe annual reception immediately follows author Rebecca Traister's visit to Grand Rapids on March 13 discussing her book All the Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent […]
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Where Have All the Flowers Gone? Rediscovering Emma Cole’s 19th-Century Grand Rapids Flora
Bunker Interpretive Center at Calvin CollegeIn 1901 Emma J. Cole published Grand Rapids Flora, a catalogue of plants growing without cultivation in the vicinity of Kent County. Enormous changes have taken place since those “horse and buggy” days, […]
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Who in the World is Merze Tate?
Grand Rapids Public Library 111 Library NE, Grand Rapids, MI, United StatesAuthor Sonya Bernard Hollins will update us on her research into the amazing life and mysteries of Merze Tate. An African American girl born in 1905 in rural Michigan, Tate graduated […]