Review: Interpreting the Legacy of Women’s Suffrage at Museums and Historic Sites, by Page Harrington

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Book Review| May 01 2023 Review: Interpreting the Legacy of Women’s Suffrage at Museums and Historic Sites, by Page Harrington Interpreting the Legacy of Women’s Suffrage at Museums and Historic Sites by Page Harrington. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2021. 150 pp.; illustrations, timeline, resources, bibliography; clothbound, $79.00; paperback, $35.00; eBook, $33.00. Allison K. Lange Allison K. Lange Wentworth Institute of Technology Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar The Public Historian (2023) 45 (2): 148–149. https://doi.org/10.1525/tph.2023.45.2.148 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Allison K. Lange; Review: Interpreting the Legacy of Women’s Suffrage at Museums and Historic Sites, by Page Harrington. The Public Historian 1 May 2023; 45 (2): 148–149. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/tph.2023.45.2.148 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentThe Public Historian Search In Interpreting the Legacy of Women’s Suffrage at Museums and Historic Sites, Page Harrington starts with an overview of recent histories of women’s voting rights and addresses the tensions around representing racism within the movement. The book includes four case studies to demonstrate the challenges and successes of portraying the racial divides. An appendix rounds up some of the resources created for the 2020 centennial of the Nineteenth Amendment and features a broad timeline of the history of women’s rights. As a former executive director of the Sewall-Belmont House and Museum in Washington, DC, Harrington has vital firsthand knowledge of the opportunities and obstacles facing those who seek to tell a more complex story of the movement. Her book is a useful resource for anyone telling the history of women’s suffrage to the public. Interpreting the Legacy of Women’s Suffrage at Museums and Historic Sites is part of a... You do not currently have access to this content.