Research From Our Fellows

The Women’s History Institute Summer Research Fellowship supports the research of college and graduate students into the lives of women residing in the Hudson Valley during the 18^th and 19^thcenturies. Explore some of their findings in this collection of articles.

A Day In the Life With Ann Hoffman

Letters, Locks, and Likenesses: How Nineteenth-Century Remembrance Practices Invite Us Into the Past

Finding Etched Glass Inscriptions in the Window at Van Cortlandt Manor

Research Fellows Shed Light on Legal and Culinary Practices in Early New York

The Crane Monument

By Lucy Brewster, Vassar College Women’s History Institute Fellow, Historic Hudson Valley, 2021 For visitors walking through the Sleepy Hollow cemetery, one memorial stands out: a tall stone monument with names engraved on each side, standing high above surrounding tombstones. While this grave site is far from the most famous in the cemetery that houses […]

The Situation of Her Writing Desk

By Morgan Graham, PhD candidate, University of Minnesota Margaretta (Happy) Rockefeller Women’s History Institute Fellow, Historic Hudson Valley, 2021 When I sit down to write a letter, I start by writing the name of my recipient. And then, with the friend I’m writing to in mind, I might tell her how I’ve spent my week, […]