An Appeal to the Women of the United States Senate

California

American Studies Program, Brandeis University

please add the amendment and insure the NWHM reflects scholary excellence.

this is absurd. employ Women's historians

There is no excuse for not providing women with equal pay for equal work.

This makes so much sense!

Brandeis University

George R. Cooley Curator, Swarthmore College Peace Collection

Trumbull Professor of American History, Harvard University

As a women's historian, I support this petition!

A museum devoted to women's history obviously needs the full participation of scholars of women's history. We need the museum; it needs the scholars.

Professional expertise can only improve museum content.

A national museum of women's history REQUIRES the central participation of professional historians of women. Without them, it will fail!

We have worked too hard for too long to allow inaccurate, simplistic histories to remain in place. Please write a bill that allows for robust public engagement by scholars.

The American public and visitors from other countries expect and deserve a Women's History Museum that meets the highest standards of scholarship and includes the most recent insights of scholars in the field. Please write a strong bill to ensure that the Museum will meet these expectations.

As an editor at the Pacific Historical Review, past president of the Western Association of Women Historians and current co-president of the Coordinating Council for Women in History (both of which have been serving the historical profession for 45 years), I find it outrageous that the contributions of women historians are so missing from the proposed National Women's History Museum. How, after all these years, can legislators still not recognize how women scholars have transformed the study of history. Get out of the bubble!

It is absolutely essential that this important proposed museum reflect the inclusive and diverse vision of women's history that it has taken a half century of engaged scholarship to achieve. To incorporate women's history meaningfully in a National Women's History Museum will require the professional expertise of women's historians in every stage of planning and implementation.

The proposed National Women's History Museum absolutely needs to have professional scholars of women's history involved in every stage of planning and execution.

Please ensure that women's historians are represented strongly on the commission to create a women's history movement. Their presence is vitally needed to guarantee that the museum accurately represents American women's history.

If we are going to have a National Women's History Museum, it must include input from women who are professional historians,