REVEALING WOMEN’S HISTORY: Best Practices at Historic Sites Featuring Five Case Studies Edited by Heather A. Huyck & Peg Strobel REVEALING WOMEN’S HISTORY: Best Practices at Historic Sites Featuring Five Case Studies Edited by Heather Huyck & Peg Strobel Published by the National Collaborative for Women’s History Sites 1 ____________________________________________________________________________ ©2011 National Collaborative for Women‘s History Sites All rights reserved. ISBN 978-0-9770095-6-1 Library of Congress Control Number 2011928830 Published by the National Collaborative for Women‘s History Sites This project was supported by the National Park Service's Challenge Cost Share Program. Points of view are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent the position of the Department of the Interior. Edited by Heather Huyck and Peg Strobel Designed and Produced by Robert P. J. Cooney, Jr. Printed by Community Printers, Santa Cruz, CA Available in print and in color on CD from the National Collaborative for Women‘s History Sites www.ncwhs.org NCWHS c/o Grace Hudson Museum 431 South Main Street Ukiah, CA 95482
[email protected] Front cover and title page credits (from top): The National Park Service, Sharlot Hall Museum, and The Hermitage: Home of President Andrew Jackson, Nashville, TN. Back cover credits (from top): The Hermitage: Home of President Andrew Jackson, Nashville, TN. (top and fourth down), Independence National Historical Park, Yosemite Research Library, and the Department of Interior. 2 ____________________________________________________________________________ Contents Introduction, by Heather Huyck 5 Independence National Historical Park, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, by Dawn C. Adiletta 7 Otis House, Boston, Massachusetts, by Ellen Cronin 21 The Hermitage, Nashville, Tennessee, by Tara Y.