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The Sudbury Connection

September 27, 2015
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The Sudbury Connection Written by Jacob Slutsky, EHC Intern. “Thus from Sudbury stock descended one of America’s leading citizens, a man who has made his mark in the world, and who is striving strenuously for world peace.” – “U.S. Ambassador’s Visit to Ancestral Home Town,” East Anglia Daily Times, October 2, 1929. It’s no secret around…

“We Shall Take No Golf Clubs”: Charles Gates Dawes and the Dominican Mission, 1929

August 4, 2015
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“We Shall Take No Golf Clubs”: Charles Gates Dawes and the Dominican Mission, 1929 Written by Jacob Slutsky, EHC Intern. As I have continued my work researching unlabeled items in the Evanston History Center’s artifact collection, I came across a curious artifact from 1929. Primarily made of fine wood in a square, almost book-like shape,…

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…

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