History

“I didn’t realize that I would have an understanding of an archive as having a role in changing society.”

Do you understand that your quality of life and your survival are tied to how authentic and generous the connections are between you and the people and place you live with and in?
— adrienne maree brown, “Emergent Strategy”

In a day and age when compassion and community can seem in short supply, we turn to Etty Hillesum (1914-1943).

This one-woman theatrical presentation and lecture traces the pivotal contributions of Nordic immigrant suffragists to voting rights in Minnesota. Presenter

This one-woman theatrical presentation and lecture traces the pivotal contributions of Nordic immigrant suffragists to voting rights in Minnesota. Presenter

On a January day in 2001, my mother and I sat together in the Gale Family Library at the Minnesota

In 2011, my mother Miriam Mann Harris was approached by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to provide an

“Just from interviewing my own family, I knew African-American culture had been around for generations, but you wouldn’t know it from what we’re taught in our schools.”

100 years of history March 8, 1857:Hundreds of New York City women took 
to the streets to protest 
inhumane working

Aretha, Xena, Janet Reno & more … 25 years of women’s work, 1985 to today