Title

Sharing Stories from 1977

Description

Sharing Stories from 1977 joins historians and technologists who share a strong interest in women's ways of engaging the political world. Our project documents and preserves the stories of NWC participants through biographies, oral histories, historical ephemera, demographic mapping, and interpretive essays.

In Spring 2021 and Spring 2024, students in HIST 372: The ‘70s: U.S. Women’s Conferences, Conventions and Confrontations in the 1970s and HIST 392: Doing History: Oral and Public History contributed to this ongoing, NEH grant-supported digital history project based at the University of Houston. These students were a few of the hundreds of students nationwide who researched and contributed biographies of delegates who attended the 1977 National Women's Conference in Houston. Their research is featured on the digital history site and may be used by future researchers seeking more information about the iconic conference. The conference was the first federally funded women's conference in the United States and was a four-day event held in response to the United Nations' 1975 International Year of the Woman.

Link to Project Website

list of authors

Dr. Jamie Wagman

Paige Barrier

Brynne Volpe

Maggie Milligan

Shannon Haverty

Kacie Snyder

Miranda Proto

Alexa Mendoza

Abigail Pinnow

Isabel Coyne

Sarah Stevenson

Megan Riba

Grace Maher

Phoenix McClellan

Molly Minick

Rebecca Holm

Fiona O'Byrne

Brianna Wettergren

Caroline Dutton

Hannah Nicole-Park

Is Part Of

Some student work on this project has been supported by a summer research stipend made possible through a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.