One hundred years of Junior League magazines are now domiciled at the Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America at Harvard’s Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies.
Whatever was left of the Victorian Era disappeared in the second decade of the century as the role of women in the public arena continued to strengthen. Out of the Settlement House Movement had come a new respect for social workers as professionals and women as volunteers. A band of well-trained women stood ready to assume even greater responsibility in…
Girls coming of age as the 20th century began were already on their way to becoming modern women. Since 1860, when a brewer named Vassar established a college to offer women the same rigorous academic training received by men, more and more middle class women were attending new women’s colleges or progressive co-educational institutions in the west. After Frederic A.P….
Learn more about the role of women in reform visiting the online exhibit at the National Women’s History Museum, Reforming their World: Women in the Progressive Era.
