Women, Monuments and Memory: Rethinking Suffrage
Articles on the Gender Gap in Public Sculpture
- Why the dearth of statues honoring women in Statuary Hall and elsewhere? (Washington Post, 4/15/2011)
- Mapping history's 'invisible' women (CNN,3/4/2015)
- The Gender Gap in Historic Sculptures and Public Art (Bloomberg, 2/24/2016)
- It's Way too Hard to Find statues of notable women in the United States (Smithsonian Magazine, 2/29/2016)
- Where are the women? New effort to give them just due on monuments, street names (CNN, 3/8/2017)
- Commemorating Suffrage: Historic Sites and Women's Right to Vote (US National Park Service, October 2018)
- Few statehouses feature memorials to actual historical women(AP News, 1/16/2020)
- Mellon Foundation announces $250M "Monuments Project" to reimagine the way history is told in the U.S. (Archinect News, 10/5/2020)
- The Monuments Project: Building the commemorative landscape 21st-century America needs (Salon, 10/11/2020)
- Seeing the Bigger Picture on Public Memorials to Women (Hyperallergic, 11/27/2020)
Articles on Representation: Whose Suffrage Story?
- Bust of Sojourner Truth Unveiled at U.S. Capitol (Washington Post, 4/20/2009)
- Put the women's suffrage monument on our currency (Washington Times, 3/31/2015)
- The Suffragist Statue Trapped in a Broom Closet for 75 Years (Smithsonian Magazine, 5/12/2017)
- Women's Suffrage Myths and the Lesser Known Women Suffragists (NBC News.com, 3/27/2020)
- What Should Cambridge’s Monument to Women’s Suffrage Look Like? (Boston Magazine, 7/14/2020)
- Clinton pushes for monuments of suffragists: 'These women deserve statues' (The Hill, 8/17/2020)
- The Problem With NYC’s New Women’s Rights Monument
(The Nation, 8/25/2020)
- Why the First Monument of Real Women in Central Park Matters—and Why It’s Controversial (Smithsonian Magazine, 8/26/2020)
- Saying Her Name: What Monuments to Sojourner Truth Can Teach Us about Memorializing Black Lives (Social Text online, 11/5/2020)
- The Women's Suffrage Monument in DC just needs the president's signature to become reality (CPR News, 12/2/2020)