Women’s History Organizations and Museums
These groups share one common goal: increasing awareness of United States women’s marvelous history. If you need to locate a public speaker, ask direction to specific resources, or find a group to join yourself, this is a great starting point. The list is arranged alphabetically by state.
To suggest an organization or museum to add to this list, please contact us. NWHP@aol.com
California
Western Association of Women Historians
c/o Amy Essington
7043 Hanbury St.
Long Beach, CA 90808
Women’s History Reclamation Project
2323 Broadway, Suite 107
San Diego, CA 92102
619-233-7963
Email: whrp1@aol.com
International Museum of Women
(Formerly: Women’s Heritage Museum )
Chris Yelton, President
PO Box 190038
San Francisco, CA 94119
415-543-4669
Email: cyelton@imow.org
Colorado
Women of the West Museum
4001 Discovery Drive
Boulder, CO 80303-7816
303-541-1000
303-541-1042 FAX
Colorado Coalition for Women’s History
c/o Marcia Goldstein
PO Box 673
1200 Madison
Denver, CO 80206
303-377-6315
Connecticut
Holley House Museum & Salisbury Cannon Museum
c/o Kerry Ann Keser
P.O. Box 553
Salisbury, CT 06068
Phone: 860-435-2878
Fax: 860-435-6469
Tues-Sat. 10am-5pm
Harriet Beecher Stowe Center
77 Forest Street
Hartford, CT 06105
Phone: 860-522-9258
Florida
Broward County Women’s History Coalition
1350 East Sunrise Blvd., # 114
Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33304
954-467-2999
953-767-0115 FAX
Community Coalition for Women’s History, Inc.
351 NW 5th Street
Miami, FL 33128-1615
305-377-9922
305-373-9922 FAX
Georgia
National Black Herstory Task Force, Inc.
C/o Mozella Galloway
PO Box 55021
Atlanta, GA 30322
404-508-8040
Email: black-herstory@mindspring.com
Southern Association of Women Historians
c/o Michele Gillespie
Dept. of History
Agnes Scott College
Decatur, GA 30030-3797
404-638-6214
Hawaii
Daughters of Hawaii
c/o Kim Ku'ulei Birnieor
2913 Pali Highway
Honolulu, HI 96817
Illinois
Chicago Area Women’s History Conference
c/o Mary Ann Johnson, President
2109 N. Humboldt Blvd.
Chicago, IL 60647
773-227-4949
Email: MAJohn4@prodigy.net
Women & Labor History Project
c/o Yolanda (Bobbie) Hall
5320 N. Sheridan Road, #1902
Chicago, IL 60640
773-769-2665
Indiana
Northwest Indiana women’s Museum
Renee Miles Foster
PO Box 2847
Gary, IN 46403
219-880-0452
Email: rmiles@niia.net
Quilters Hall of Fame
PO Box 681
Marion, IN 46952
765-496-6864
Iowa
CWSHA
c/o Glenda Riley
University of Northern Iowa: History Dept.
Cedar Falls, IA 50614
317-285-8725
Southern Assn. of Women Historians
c/o Rosemary F. Carroll
COE College, Dept of History
Cedar Rapids, IA 52402
319-399-8572
Kentucky
Women’s History Coalition of Kentucky
c/o Karen McDaniel
KSU: Blazer Library
Frankfort, KY 40601
502-227-6854
Massachussetts
Jewish Women’s Archive
68 Harvard Street
Brookline MA 02143
617 232-2258
617 945-0109 FAX
Email: jwarchive@rcn.com
Website: jwa.org
The Sophia Smith Collection
Sherrill Redmon, Head
Smith College
Northampton, MA 01063
413-585-2978
413-585-2886 FAX
Email: sredmon@library.smith.edu
Website: http://www.smith.edu/libraries/ssc
One of America's premier archives for women’s history manuscripts, open to the public; mounts exhibitions, presents lectures and symposia and other women’s history programs.
Women Who Lead
The Sophia Smith Foundation
PO Box 991
Groton, MA 01450
978-448-3212
Email: sofiafoundation@yahoo.com
Website: www.womenwholead.org
The Schlesinger Library
Mary Maples Dunn, Director
Radcliffe College
3 James Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Worcester Women's History Project
30 Elm Street
Worcester, MA 01609
508-767-1852
Email: info@wwhp.org
Website: www.wwhp.org
Michigan
Women's History Project of Northwest Michigan
Anne Magoun, President
322 Sixth Street
Traverse City MI 49684
231-941-1669
Email: merrybrook@traverse.com
Michigan Women’s Historical Center and Hall of Fame
Gladys Beckwith, Director
213 W Main St
Lansing, MI 48933
517-484-1880
517-372-0170 FAX
Email: mwhfame@leslie.k12.mi.us
Benzie Area Women’s History Project
c/o Darlene Bates
737 Hill Street
Beulah, MI 49176
616-882-4389
Greater Grand Rapids Women’s History Council
143 Bostwick, NE Room 57-G2
Grand Rapids, MI 49503-3295
616-234-3603
Website: www.grapids.lib.mi.us/whc
Michigan Women’s History Center
Director
213 W Main St
Lansing, MI 48933
517-484-1990
Minnesota
Upper Midwest Women’s History Center
Director
749 Simpson Street
St. Paul, MN 55104
612-644-1727
612-644-3350 FAX
Website: www.hamline.edu/grad/whc_html/whc.html
Women Historians of the Midwest
c/o Debbie Miller
Minnesota women’s Consortium
550 Rice St, #101
St. Paul, MN 55103
612-373-0984
Missouri
The National Center for Presidential Studies
America's Presidency Museum and Gallery
2849 Gretna Rd
(P.O. Box 3)
Branson, MO 65616
417-334-8683
email: amerpresidency@aol.com
Website: www.americaspresidency.org
Bonniebrook Historical Society
Home of Rose O'Neill
485 Rose O'Neill Rd.
Walnut Shade, MO 65771
email: oneillmuseum@aol.com
Website: www.roseoneill.org
Montana
Montana Women’s History Project
C/O UM: University Center
Missoula, MT 59812
Butte Women’s Labor History Project
Ellen Crain, Director
Butte Silver Bow Public Archives
Box 81
Butte, MT 59703
Nevada
Nevada Women’s History Project
201 W. Liberty St, Ste 201
PO Box 50428
Reno, NV 89513
775-786-2335
Website: www.unr.edu/wrc/nwhp
New Jersey
Alice Paul Centennial Foundation
Director
PO Box 1376
Mt. Laurel, NJ 08054
856-231-1885
New York
Adirondack Women in History
c/o Kenda C. James
5 Middle Road, PO Box 565
Willsboro, NY 12996
518-963-7504
Coordinating Council for Women in History
c/o June E. Hahner, Professor
SUNY: Albany, Dept. of History
Albany, NY 12222
518-442-4798
Email: hahner@csc.albany.edu
Elizabeth Cady Stanton Foundation
PO Box 603
Seneca Falls, NY 13148
Friends of Women's Rights National Historical
Park, Inc.
http://www.womensrightsfriends.org
Email: info@womensrightsfriends.org
Mohawk Valley women’s History Project
c/o Karen Hnat
20 Upper Woods Road
New Hartford, NY 13413
315-735-3742
Email: nat1008@aol.com
National women’s Hall of Fame
PO Box 335
Seneca Falls, NY 13148-0335
315-568-2936
Email: greatwomen@greatwomen.org
Website: www.greatwomen.org
Upstate New York Women’s History Conference
c/o Patricia Foster Haines
1202 E State St
Ithaca, NY 14850
Western New York Women’s History Committee and Hall of Fame
C/O Geraldine Bard, 153 Lancaster Avenue
Buffalo, NY 14222
716-878-6820
Women’s Rights National Historical Park
National Park Service
c/o Tina Orcutt, Superintendent
136 Fall Street
Seneca Falls, NY 13148
315-568-2991
Encompasses Wesleyan Chapel (site of the 1848 Women’s Rights Convention), the homes of women’s rights pioneers Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Jane Hunt, and Mary Ann M'Clintock, and a magnificent visitor's center/museum.
North Carolina
Triangle Multicultural Women’s History Project
c/o Elizabeth MacDonald
605 Germaine St
Apex, NC 27502
919-362-4436
Ohio
International Women’s Air and Space Museum
Room 165, Burke Lakefront Airport
1501 N. Marginal Road
Cleveland, OH 44114
216-623-1111
Website: www.iwasm.org
Women’s History Project of Akron
c/o Kate Meyers
PO Box 72077
Akron, OH 44372-2077
216-366-2578
Women Historians of Greater Cleveland
c/o Judith Cetira
3391 Tiellamore
Cleveland Heights, OH 44118
Women’s History Project of Greene County
c/o Imogen Trolander
1475 President Street
Yellow Springs, OH 45387
Oklahoma
Pioneer Woman Museum
c/o Jan Prough
701 Monument Rd
Ponca City, OK 74604
405-765-6108
Oregon
Rogue Valley Women’s History Project
c/o Marilyn Boje
PO Box 674
Ashland, OR 97520
Pennsylvania
Italian-American Women’s History Project
c/o Lola Rozzi
3531 Kutztown Rd
Laureldale, PA 19605
610-929-4463
South Carolina
Assoc. of Black Women Historians
Dr. Barbara Woods, Director
SCSU: Dept. of History
Orangeburg, SC 29117
803-536-8672
Tennessee
Tennessee Women’s Network
c/o Ilene Jones-Cornwell
5632 Meadowcrest Lane
Nashville, TN 37209
615-356-3136
Email: ilene.jones-cornwell@nashville.com
Texas
Foundation for Women’s Resources
Candace O’Keefe, Director
3500 Jefferson, Suite 210
Austin, TX 78731
512-459-1167
National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame
Kelly Jordan
1720 Gendy
Ft. Worth, TX 76107
817-336-4475
Website: www.cowgirl.net/
The Women's Museum: An Institute for the Future
Wanda Brice, CEO
3800 Parry Avenue
Dallas, Texas 75226
214-915-0860
Fax: 214-915-0870
Website: www.thewomensmuseum.org
Virginia
National Museum of Women’s History
303 West Glendale Avenue
Alexandria, VA 22308
703-299-0552
703-299-0557 FAX
Email: crenz@nwhm.org
Website: www.NMWH.org
Washington Women Historians
c/o Sarah Larson
1668 Wainwright Drive
Reston, VA 20190-3432
703-742-0578
Women in Military Service for America
Suite 302
5510 Columbia Pike
Arlington, VA 22204
703-533-1555 or 800-222-2294
703-931-4208 FAX
Email: wimsa@aol.com
Website: www.womensmemorial.org
Washington, D.C.
American Historical Association
c/o Noralee Frankel
Women & Minorities
400 A St SE
Washington, DC 20003
202-544-2422
General Federation of Women’s Clubs
women’s History and Resource Center
1734 N Street, NW
Washington, DC 20036 -2990
202-347-3168
202-835-0246 FAX
1-800-443-GFWC
Website: WHRC@gfwc.org
National Museum of Women in the Arts
1250 New York Avenue, NW
Washington, D.C. 10005
202-783-7370
West Virginia
Women’s History Museum
c/o Jeanne and Robert Schramm
Box 209
108 Walnut Street
West Liberty, WV 26074
304-336-7159
Wisconsin
Rock County Women’s History Committee
c/o Judy Kneece
3205 N. Crystal Springs Road
Janesville, WI 53545
608-756-2045
Wyoming
Women’s History Research Center
c/o American Heritage Center
Univ. of Wyoming, Box 3924
Laramie, WY 82071-3924
307-766-4114
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