The next walking tour, Historic Apartment Buildings, will be on Saturday, October 3. This tour through southeast Evanston will explore how different architectural styles popular for Evanston’s houses were also applied to its apartment buildings, from Gothic Revival to Arts and Crafts. Click to learn more.
Under the Buffalo goes virtual this fall! Our second lecture is a conversation with Spencer Jourdain, author of “The Dream Dancers,” and Dino Robinson, founder and executive director of Shorefront Legacy Center. Click to learn more about how to attend this exciting event!
Thanks to everyone who came out to hear Jacqueline Saper talk about her experiences growing up and living in Iran during the rule of the Shah (Mohammad Reza Pahlavi), the revolution, and the establishment of the Islamic Republic of Iran. It was quite a fascinating talk and from the buzz afterward, it was clear that…
The Evanston History Center is beginning a phased reopening for exhibits and self-guided tours in late August. New measures will be implemented for the safety of our staff and visitors. Click “Read More” to find out how you can sign-up to visit.
The Evanston History Center Research Room will be reopening with some restrictions for public health and safety. The number of visitors will be limited for each day, click to learn more about how you can sign up for a research slot.
Thank you to all of our sponsors who are helping us make the 45th annual Mother’s Day House “Walk-By” happen this year. You can still purchase House Walk-by books and support the Evanston History Center. Click to learn more.
At EHC, we oppose racism in all its many forms. We believe that knowing our history is a powerful means to make meaningful and positive change. This year’s house walk featured the homes and stories of Evanston women and women’s organizations that had positive impacts on the community through their work in suffrage and politics. …
The Evanston History Center announces the launch of an archive and digital record dedicated to documenting the COVID-19 pandemic in Evanston and surrounding areas. We are now seeking digital contributions, from images to documents. Click “Read More” to see how to contribute and submission guidelines.
Heading out for a walk? Stop by the Evanston History Center to pick up a historic walking tour to go on. Maps are located on the side porch, inside the door. You can also download a PDF to print at home or to use it on your mobile device. Click “Read More” to see and download walking tours.
To our members, friends, and visitors: The Board of the Evanston History Center has the health and safety of our visitors and staff as our primary concern. Beginning Monday, March 16, we will suspend tours, access to the research room, and programs until further notice. The situation may change, so please check our website. Like many…
September 6, 202011:00 am - 12:30 pm Michigan Avenue & Burnham Place, Michigan Ave & Burnham Pl, Evanston, IL 60202, USA
The Evanston History Center offers lively docent-led walking tours of Evanston neighborhoods, downtown, and the lakefront. The tours provide fun and fascinating insights into the history of Evanston, its architecture, and the cultural landscape.
Location
Most tours, unless otherwise stated, meet at the Evanston History Center, 225 Greenwood Street, Evanston.
Hours
Tours vary and are occasionally repeated.
Tours begin at 11:00 AM and last for 90 minutes.
Admission
The cost is $20 per person/$15 for members unless otherwise stated. Contactless payment is required when registering for a tour.
Registration is REQUIRED! RSVP to Kris Hartzell, or 847-475-3410.
All guests must wear a mask and practice safe social distancing! We do reserve the right to cancel due to weather or unforeseen circumstances.
Parking
Free street parking is available on Greenwood Street.
NEW THIS YEAR Michigan Meanderings – September 6, 2020 (Sunday!) This tour will meet on the parkway at Michigan Avenue and Burnham Place.
Michigan Avenue is a beautiful street that holds a remarkable collection of houses by Chicago’s most distinguished architects, all within just a few blocks.
Location: Michigan Avenue & Burnham Place, Michigan Ave & Burnham Pl, Evanston, IL 60202, USA
Description:
The Evanston History Center offers lively docent-led walking tours of Evanston neighborhoods, downtown, and the lakefront. The tours provide fun and fascinating insights into the history of Evanston, its architecture, and the cultural landscape.
Location
Most tours, unless otherwise stated, meet at the Evanston History Center, 225 Greenwood Street, Evanston.
Hours
Tours vary and are occasionally repeated.
Tours begin at 11:00 AM and last for 90 minutes.
Admission
The cost is $20 per person/$15 for members unless otherwise stated. Contactless payment is required when registering for a tour.
Registration is REQUIRED! RSVP to Kris Hartzell, or 847-475-3410.
All guests must wear a mask and practice safe social distancing! We do reserve the right to cancel due to weather or unforeseen circumstances.
Parking
Free street parking is available on Greenwood Street.
NEW THIS YEAR Michigan Meanderings – September 6, 2020 (Sunday!) This tour will meet on the parkway at Michigan Avenue and Burnham Place.
Michigan Avenue is a beautiful street that holds a remarkable collection of houses by Chicago’s most distinguished architects, all within just a few blocks.
Virtual UTB: The Watergate Girl: My Fight for Truth and Justice Against a Criminal President
Virtual UTB: The Watergate Girl: My Fight for Truth and Justice Against a Criminal President
September 15, 20206:30 pm - 7:30 pm Virtual Gathering
Join us for a live conversation between Jill Wine-Banks and Christie Hefner
Tuesday, September 15, 2020, 6:30pm-7:30pm
Obstruction of justice, lies from the White House, sexism at work, shocking revelations: Jill Wine-Banks takes us inside her trial by fire as a Watergate prosecutor.
It was a time, much like today, when Americans feared for the future of their democracy and women stood up for equal treatment. At the crossroads of the Watergate scandal and the women’s movement stood a young lawyer named Jill Wine Volner (as she was then known), barely thirty years old and the only woman on the team that prosecuted the highest-ranking White House officials. Called “the mini-skirted lawyer” by the press, she fought to receive the respect accorded her male counterparts and prevailed.
In The Watergate Girl, Jill Wine-Banks takes us inside this troubled time in American history, and it is impossible to read about the crimes of Richard Nixon and the people around him without drawing parallels to today’s headlines. The book is also the story of a young woman who sought to make her professional mark while trapped in a failing marriage, buffeted by sexist preconceptions, and harboring secrets of her own. Her house was burgled, her phones were tapped, and even her office garbage was rifled through.
At once a cautionary tale and an inspiration for those who believe in the power of justice and the rule of law, The Watergate Girl is a revelation about our country, our politics, and who we are as a society.
Members of the Evanston History Center attend for free! Please register for the event here.
Not a member? Join the Evanston History Center today and support more events like this one!
Non Members: $10 admission.
Jill Wine-Banks is an MSNBC legal analyst, appearing regularly on the network’s primetime and daytime shows and also appearing on PBS, Canadian and Australian networks, Sirius XM, NPR and other radio shows and podcasts. She began her career as an organized crime prosecutor at the U.S. Department of Justice, which led to her selection as one of three assistant Watergate special prosecutors in the obstruction of justice trial against President Nixon’s top aides. She has also served as general counsel of the U.S. Army, solicitor general and deputy attorney general of the state of Illinois, and chief operating officer of the American Bar Association. In each case, she was the first woman to hold the position. She is a graduate of the University of Illinois and the Columbia Law School. She has written OpEds for the NBC.com, Chicago Tribune, Politico, and Huffington Post. She has also been featured in several documentaries and films, including Academy Award winner Charles Ferguson’s Watergate, or How We Got Control of an Out of Control President, Robert Redford’s All The President’s Men Revisited, ABC 20/20, and Michael Moore’s Farenheit 11/9.
Christie served as Chairman and CEO of Playboy Enterprises for 20 years: the longest serving female CEO of a publicly traded company, and when she left over 40% of her executives were women. She was on the Fortune 100 Most Powerful Women in the World list for three years. She was a founding member of The Chicago Network, The Committee of 200 and the Chicago Chapter of Women Corporate Directors. And, she serves as a director on the board of the Center for American Progress Action, an independent, progressive policy institute and advocacy organization.
Copies of The Watergate Girl are available for sale thanks to our good friends at Bookends & Beginnings. Order online and have your copy mailed to you or you can pick it up from Bookends & Beginnings.
Virtual UTB: The Watergate Girl: My Fight for Truth and Justice Against a Criminal President
Starts: 6:30 pm
Ends: September 15, 2020 - 7:30 pm
Location: Virtual Gathering
Description:
Join us for a live conversation between Jill Wine-Banks and Christie Hefner
Tuesday, September 15, 2020, 6:30pm-7:30pm
Obstruction of justice, lies from the White House, sexism at work, shocking revelations: Jill Wine-Banks takes us inside her trial by fire as a Watergate prosecutor.
It was a time, much like today, when Americans feared for the future of their democracy and women stood up for equal treatment. At the crossroads of the Watergate scandal and the women’s movement stood a young lawyer named Jill Wine Volner (as she was then known), barely thirty years old and the only woman on the team that prosecuted the highest-ranking White House officials. Called “the mini-skirted lawyer” by the press, she fought to receive the respect accorded her male counterparts and prevailed.
In The Watergate Girl, Jill Wine-Banks takes us inside this troubled time in American history, and it is impossible to read about the crimes of Richard Nixon and the people around him without drawing parallels to today’s headlines. The book is also the story of a young woman who sought to make her professional mark while trapped in a failing marriage, buffeted by sexist preconceptions, and harboring secrets of her own. Her house was burgled, her phones were tapped, and even her office garbage was rifled through.
At once a cautionary tale and an inspiration for those who believe in the power of justice and the rule of law, The Watergate Girl is a revelation about our country, our politics, and who we are as a society.
Members of the Evanston History Center attend for free! Please register for the event here.
Not a member? Join the Evanston History Center today and support more events like this one!
Non Members: $10 admission.
Jill Wine-Banks is an MSNBC legal analyst, appearing regularly on the network’s primetime and daytime shows and also appearing on PBS, Canadian and Australian networks, Sirius XM, NPR and other radio shows and podcasts. She began her career as an organized crime prosecutor at the U.S. Department of Justice, which led to her selection as one of three assistant Watergate special prosecutors in the obstruction of justice trial against President Nixon’s top aides. She has also served as general counsel of the U.S. Army, solicitor general and deputy attorney general of the state of Illinois, and chief operating officer of the American Bar Association. In each case, she was the first woman to hold the position. She is a graduate of the University of Illinois and the Columbia Law School. She has written OpEds for the NBC.com, Chicago Tribune, Politico, and Huffington Post. She has also been featured in several documentaries and films, including Academy Award winner Charles Ferguson’s Watergate, or How We Got Control of an Out of Control President, Robert Redford’s All The President’s Men Revisited, ABC 20/20, and Michael Moore’s Farenheit 11/9.
Christie served as Chairman and CEO of Playboy Enterprises for 20 years: the longest serving female CEO of a publicly traded company, and when she left over 40% of her executives were women. She was on the Fortune 100 Most Powerful Women in the World list for three years. She was a founding member of The Chicago Network, The Committee of 200 and the Chicago Chapter of Women Corporate Directors. And, she serves as a director on the board of the Center for American Progress Action, an independent, progressive policy institute and advocacy organization.
Copies of The Watergate Girl are available for sale thanks to our good friends at Bookends & Beginnings. Order online and have your copy mailed to you or you can pick it up from Bookends & Beginnings.
Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers Book Launch with Martha S. Jones
Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers Book Launch with Martha S. Jones
September 17, 20206:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Join Jane Addams Hull-House Museum and the Frances Willard House Museum in conversation with Martha S. Jones author of Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote and Insisted on Equality for All (Basic/2020) and Leslie Harris (moderator), professor, Department of History, Northwestern University.
FREE, Book Launch and Reception
About the Book: In the standard story, the suffrage crusade began in Seneca Falls in 1848 and ended with the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920. But this overwhelmingly white women’s movement did not win the vote for most black women. Securing their rights required a movement of their own. In Vanguard, acclaimed historian Martha S. Jones offers a new history of African American women’s political lives in America. She recounts how they defied both racism and sexism to fight for the ballot, and how they wielded political power to secure the equality and dignity of all persons. From the earliest days of the republic to the passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act and beyond, Jones excavates the lives and work of black women — Maria Stewart, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Fannie Lou Hamer, and more— who were the vanguard of women’s rights, calling on America to realize its best ideals.
A partnership between Frances Willard House Museum, Jane Addams Hull-House Museum and Northwestern University in commemoration of the 2020 Suffrage Centennial.
Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers Book Launch with Martha S. Jones
Starts: 6:00 pm
Ends: September 17, 2020 - 8:00 pm
Description:
Join Jane Addams Hull-House Museum and the Frances Willard House Museum in conversation with Martha S. Jones author of Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote and Insisted on Equality for All (Basic/2020) and Leslie Harris (moderator), professor, Department of History, Northwestern University.
FREE, Book Launch and Reception
About the Book: In the standard story, the suffrage crusade began in Seneca Falls in 1848 and ended with the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920. But this overwhelmingly white women’s movement did not win the vote for most black women. Securing their rights required a movement of their own. In Vanguard, acclaimed historian Martha S. Jones offers a new history of African American women’s political lives in America. She recounts how they defied both racism and sexism to fight for the ballot, and how they wielded political power to secure the equality and dignity of all persons. From the earliest days of the republic to the passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act and beyond, Jones excavates the lives and work of black women — Maria Stewart, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Fannie Lou Hamer, and more— who were the vanguard of women’s rights, calling on America to realize its best ideals.
A partnership between Frances Willard House Museum, Jane Addams Hull-House Museum and Northwestern University in commemoration of the 2020 Suffrage Centennial.
September 19, 202011:00 am - 12:30 pm 225 Greenwood St, Evanston, IL 60201, USA
The Evanston History Center offers lively docent-led walking tours of Evanston neighborhoods, downtown, and the lakefront. The tours provide fun and fascinating insights into the history of Evanston, its architecture, and the cultural landscape.
Location
Most tours, unless otherwise stated, meet at the Evanston History Center, 225 Greenwood Street, Evanston.
Hours
Tours vary and are occasionally repeated.
Tours begin at 11:00 AM and last for 90 minutes.
Admission
The cost is $20 per person/$15 for members unless otherwise stated. Contactless payment is required when registering for a tour.
Registration is REQUIRED! RSVP to Kris Hartzell, or 847-475-3410.
All guests must wear a mask and practice safe social distancing! We do reserve the right to cancel due to weather or unforeseen circumstances.
Parking
Free street parking is available on Greenwood Street.
Burnham in Evanston – September 19, 2020
Daniel Burnham chose what he termed “bucolic Evanston” for his home. Discover his neighborhood and view the work he did in his hometown.
Location: 225 Greenwood St, Evanston, IL 60201, USA
Description:
The Evanston History Center offers lively docent-led walking tours of Evanston neighborhoods, downtown, and the lakefront. The tours provide fun and fascinating insights into the history of Evanston, its architecture, and the cultural landscape.
Location
Most tours, unless otherwise stated, meet at the Evanston History Center, 225 Greenwood Street, Evanston.
Hours
Tours vary and are occasionally repeated.
Tours begin at 11:00 AM and last for 90 minutes.
Admission
The cost is $20 per person/$15 for members unless otherwise stated. Contactless payment is required when registering for a tour.
Registration is REQUIRED! RSVP to Kris Hartzell, or 847-475-3410.
All guests must wear a mask and practice safe social distancing! We do reserve the right to cancel due to weather or unforeseen circumstances.
Parking
Free street parking is available on Greenwood Street.
Burnham in Evanston – September 19, 2020
Daniel Burnham chose what he termed “bucolic Evanston” for his home. Discover his neighborhood and view the work he did in his hometown.
History is alive at the Dawes House. Each year, thousands come to explore the questions history provokes, feel the excitement of discovery, and experience the thrill of examining artifacts and reading directly from original documents.
All of us who care about preserving Evanston’s history have the opportunity to safeguard one of our most visible and important artifacts, the Dawes House. The Capital Campaign will ensure that, with your help.
