Sharing Stories from 1977

10/26/2025

We are so proud of the work Hayden Reeves and Max Besselman have done on the Sharing Stories project! Congratulations! Department of History Georgia Southern University University of Houston UH Center for Public History

10/08/2025

Excited to share this CPH lecture series event! On November 20th, join CPH for a talk by University of California, Irvine Professor Judy Tzu-Chun Wu. A member of Sharing Stories' Steering Committee, Dr. Wu will discuss her forthcoming book, Moving Mountains: Asian American and Pacific Islander Feminisms and the 1977 National Women's Conference. Register @ JudyWu.eventbrite.com

08/04/2025

Don't miss this live event! Register now!

06/05/2025

We are sorry to learn of Dr. Laura Lovett's passing. She was a well-known historian who was the author of Conceiving the Future: Pronatalism, Reproduction, and the Family in the United States, 1890-1930, a second book titled With Her Fist Raised: Dorothy Pitman Hughes and the Transformative Power of Black Community Activism, and co-editor of "It's Our Movement Now:" Black Women's Politics and the 1977 National Women's Conference. To read more about Dr. Lovett, please click on the following link:

Laura L. Lovett (1963-2025) Our dear colleague Laura Lovett passed away unexpectedly on March 4, 2025. Laura joined Pitt’s History Department and its Gender, Sexuality, & Women’s Studies Program in 2018 after teaching for many years at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

04/11/2025

The University of Houston held its Undergraduate Research Day yesterday. This is an event where REACH interns--6 of whom work on the Sharing Stories project--show off some of what they've learned via posters they created. Here are five of our interns with Sharing Stories project co-director, Dr. Nancy Beck Young. Congratulations to our interns for a job well done!

04/09/2025

The Sharing Stories Student Showcase is free, online, and happening TONIGHT! 7 pm central time.

Join us as we hear from students around the US about their experiences participating the the Sharing Stories digital humanities project.

04/04/2025

Would you like to hear from some of the outstanding students who have worked on the Sharing Stories project from across the United States? Join us for the free, online Student Showcase taking place on April 9 at 7 pm central time!!

Join us as we hear from students around the US about their experiences participating the the Sharing Stories digital humanities project.

03/24/2025

Want to know more about the Sharing Stories from 1977 project? Check out this Public Historians At Work podcast!

In 1977, thousands of women gathered in Houston, Texas, for the first and only federally funded National Women’s Conference (NWC) in U.S. History. Their purpose was to set and deliver an agenda to the president that would ensure that women’s right...

03/06/2025

If you want to see a great film about the woman who fought to get the Fair Pay Act--join us on March 26 at 2:30 pm on the University of Houston campus to see Lilly, a film about Lilly Ledbetter. https://UH-LILLY.eventbrite.com

03/06/2025

A great night yesterday evening with Christy Carpenter, our special guest talking about Shaking It Up: The Life & Times of Liz Carpenter. Archivist Vince Lee was on hand with a pop-up exhibit of some of Special Collections' items pertaining to Liz Carpenter.

01/29/2025

If you are in the Houston area on March 4, you won't want to miss this!

FREE Film screening of Shaking It Up: The Life & Times of Liz Carpenter, with Co-Producer & Co-Director, Christy Carpenter

12/12/2024

Today is the 6th anniversary of NY delegate Eleanor G. Bailey's death. Bailey was an activist for women's rights and worked for the US Post Office. Here is a clip from an interview in which she discusses what it was like as a woman to work for the post office, as well as her involvement with the union. Posted by PostTruth.

NY Metro:In loving memory of Eleanor G. Bailey affectionately known as EGB and Mama E. Trailblazer, true unionist and fighter for women’s rights.Photos from ...