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Charles Gates Dawes: A Reexamination of an American Citizen

July 22, 2015
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“I’m through talking,” Charles Gates Dawes (1865-1951) once told reporters upon returning home from his stint as Budget Director in the Harding administration in 1922. Many times throughout his career Dawes said he wished to “be silent in private life, having ‘talked plenty’ in office,” [1] only to reemerge on the public stage in an ever more…

Great-Great-Grandson of Liberty: Charles Gates Dawes Attends Patriots’ Day, 1925

May 13, 2015
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Written by Jacob Slutsky, EHC Intern. As a collections intern at the Evanston History Center I have had the privilege of working over the last few months with the records of the Dawes Family Collection. I would like to call attention to two artifacts that center around Charles Gates Dawes’s visit to Boston for Patriots’…

Temperance and the Woman Suffrage Movements of the Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries

April 15, 2015
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Lori Osborne, Director of Archives & Outreach at the Evanston History Center, in celebration of Women’s History Month in March, joined Paige Harrington, Executive Director of the Sewall-Belmont House & Museum, Dr. Rosalyn Terborg Pen, University Professor Emerita, Morgan State University, and Kristina Myers, Program Director at the Alice Paul Institute, for a discussion on how the temperance and woman…

A Tale of Two Faucets

November 11, 2014
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Written by Kris Hartzell, Director of Facilities, Visitor Services and Collections, as well as our resident architectural historian. The work on keeping up an historic house is never done and problems come in all sizes, great and small. The historic sink in the first floor bathroom is original to the house, the only sink that…

EHC On The Road

November 3, 2014
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Written by Eden Juron Pearlman, Executive Director of the Evanston History Center and admirer of all types of architecture. The experience of working at the Evanston History Center is a mix of many experiences from daily life. It is part work (of course!), part family, part fun and part school. Actually, it is a lot…

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