• Thumbnail for Elizabeth Bancroft Schlesinger
    Elizabeth Bancroft Schlesinger (July 3, 1886 – June 3, 1977) was an American suffragist, civic leader, feminist, and pioneer in the field of women's history...
    8 KB (971 words) - 16:11, 4 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
    Arthur Meier Schlesinger Jr. (/ˈʃlɛsɪndʒər/ SHLESS-in-jər; born Arthur Bancroft Schlesinger; October 15, 1917 – February 28, 2007) was an American historian...
    40 KB (3,900 words) - 22:08, 17 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Schlesinger Library
    It was renamed in 1965 in honor of Elizabeth Bancroft Schlesinger (1886-1977) and her husband Arthur M. Schlesinger (1888-1965), as they were strong supporters...
    9 KB (939 words) - 22:11, 15 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Arthur M. Schlesinger Sr.
    his sons was born Arthur Bancroft Schlesinger and replaced his middle name with "Meier," adding Jr., later in life. Schlesinger died at Peter Bent Brigham...
    14 KB (1,470 words) - 17:18, 9 August 2024
  • Allen Dulles: Master of Spies, Regnery Publishing, p340 Papers of Mary Bancroft, 1862-1997. Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University....
    5 KB (636 words) - 02:37, 22 December 2023
  • bequest from Frederic Bancroft, in his memory and that of his brother, diplomat and attorney, Edgar Addison Bancroft. The Bancroft Prize has been generally...
    36 KB (449 words) - 20:45, 23 July 2024
  • Margaret, 1875-1957. Papers of Margaret Foley, 1847-1968". Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America. Retrieved 7 August 2024...
    5 KB (399 words) - 16:31, 7 August 2024
  • American comedy-drama film directed by Sidney Lumet and starring Anne Bancroft, Ron Silver, and Carrie Fisher, with an uncredited appearance by Betty...
    6 KB (720 words) - 00:31, 17 October 2023
  • Thumbnail for George Bancroft
    George Bancroft (October 3, 1800 – January 17, 1891) was an American historian, statesman and Democratic politician who was prominent in promoting secondary...
    35 KB (3,666 words) - 13:53, 3 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Jane Cunningham Croly
    Fame Schlesinger, Elizabeth Bancroft. "The Nineteenth-century Woman's Dilemma and Jennie June". New York History (1961): 365-379. in JSTOR Schlesinger, Elizabeth...
    10 KB (1,219 words) - 05:53, 3 April 2024
  • Bowler John André Edward Bancroft James Armistead Lafayette John Champe Albert D. Richardson Charles C. Carpenter Elizabeth Van Lew Mary Bowser George...
    12 KB (939 words) - 17:07, 1 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Maud Wood Park
    Archives," which was renamed in 1965 after Elizabeth Bancroft Schlesinger and her husband Arthur M. Schlesinger, as they were strong supporters of the library's...
    12 KB (1,256 words) - 19:37, 25 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Elizabeth Blackwell
    Congress) Elizabeth Blackwell. Letter to Emily Blackwell. 23 January 1855. (Blackwell Family Papers, Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe College) Elizabeth Blackwell...
    56 KB (6,437 words) - 11:41, 1 July 2024
  • and Smith College (The Sophia Smith Collection). The Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America (Harvard), for example...
    85 KB (11,275 words) - 19:59, 1 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Samuel Eliot Morison
    Samuel Eliot Morison (category Bancroft Prize winners)
    foreign countries and the United States, including two Pulitzer Prizes, two Bancroft Prizes, the Balzan Prize, the Legion of Merit, and the Presidential Medal...
    38 KB (3,949 words) - 10:17, 12 July 2024
  • Defender. September 24, 1949. p. 2. Retrieved November 3, 2021. Schlesinger, Elizabeth Bancroft (June 1967). "Reviewed Work: Dauntless in Mississippi: The...
    3 KB (309 words) - 04:33, 10 July 2023
  • Thumbnail for Harriet Beecher Stowe
    Historical Society, retrieved June 4, 2012 Beecher-Stowe family Papers. Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University. The 1849 Cholera Epidemic...
    61 KB (6,887 words) - 01:23, 16 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Dustin Hoffman
    Scheider. Its director, John Schlesinger also directed Hoffman in Midnight Cowboy in 1969. Described as "Schlesinger's thriller", by author Gene D. Phillips...
    103 KB (11,120 words) - 23:16, 12 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for David Nasaw
    David Nasaw (category Bancroft Prize winners)
    Center of the City University of New York, where he is the Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. Professor of History. In addition to writing numerous scholarly and...
    21 KB (1,963 words) - 11:27, 31 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Angela Davis
    1937–2017 MC 940. Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. Angela Y. Davis Collection of the Schlesinger Library A/D260...
    119 KB (10,549 words) - 15:43, 3 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Betty Friedan
    4, 2006, her 85th birthday. Some of Friedan's papers are held at the Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts...
    64 KB (7,054 words) - 06:05, 8 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Orestes Brownson
    four years. Other contributors included George Bancroft, Margaret Fuller, George Ripley, and Elizabeth Peabody. Brownson originally offered use of the...
    29 KB (3,555 words) - 09:12, 31 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Julie Christie
    Directed by Schlesinger and co-starring Dirk Bogarde and Laurence Harvey, Christie had only been cast in the lead role after Schlesinger insisted, the...
    43 KB (3,108 words) - 20:59, 3 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Nancy Pelosi
    Winnemucca Fanny Wright 1995 Virginia Apgar Ann Bancroft Amelia Bloomer Mary Breckinridge Eileen Collins Elizabeth Hanford Dole Anne Dallas Dudley Mary Baker...
    285 KB (25,696 words) - 16:49, 12 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Amelia Earhart
    nurse in Toronto." Archived September 24, 2017, at the Wayback Machine Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America Radcliffe Institute for Advanced...
    124 KB (13,501 words) - 20:20, 12 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Frances FitzGerald (journalist)
    Frances FitzGerald (journalist) (category Bancroft Prize winners)
    account of the Vietnam War. It was a bestseller that won the Pulitzer Prize, Bancroft Prize, and National Book Award. Frances FitzGerald was born in New York...
    17 KB (1,724 words) - 16:46, 3 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Susan B. Anthony
    1815–1961: A Finding Aid". Harvard University. Retrieved June 1, 2017 Schlesinger Library Archived September 23, 2017, at the Wayback Machine, Radcliffe...
    142 KB (17,611 words) - 10:09, 8 August 2024
  • Russia Leaves the War (category Bancroft Prize-winning works)
    History, the 1957 National Book Award for Nonfiction, the 1957 George Bancroft Prize, and the 1957 Francis Parkman Prize. The first of two volumes discussing...
    1 KB (105 words) - 02:03, 13 November 2023
  • Thumbnail for Franklin D. Roosevelt
    historians about Roosevelt's attitude to Jews and the Holocaust. Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. says Roosevelt "did what he could do" to help Jews; David Wyman says...
    168 KB (19,884 words) - 22:17, 12 August 2024
  • Price, Robert Banas 27 The Falcon and the Snowman Orion Pictures John Schlesinger (director); Steven Zaillian (screenplay); Timothy Hutton, Sean Penn,...
    96 KB (75 words) - 15:14, 12 August 2024