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Women's Legacy

The Women and Leadership Archives (WLA) collects, preserves, and makes available permanently valuable records of women and women's organizations, which document women's lives, roles, and contributions.

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  • WLA Closed Friday, October 20, 2017

    The WLA will be closed this Friday, October 20, 2017. Regular hours will resume on Monday, October 23, 2017.
  • Suzanne Bost WLA Summer Research Grant Publication

    Suzanne Bost WLA Summer Research Grant Publication

    Suzanne Bost, PhD, Professor of English and Graduate Program Director of Women's Studies and Gender Studies at Loyola, was the recipient of the 2015 Women and Leadership Archives (WLA) Summer Research Grant. Her research at the WLA culminated in the article, “Identity and Cross-Cultural Empathy: Writing to Sister Maryagnes Curran, O.S.F.” published in the Summer 2017 issue of Feminist Formations.
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  • Artist Sam Kirk: Workshop/Keynote

    Artist Sam Kirk: Workshop/Keynote

    In celebration of LGBTQIA Heritage Month, the WLA is co-sponsoring events with artist Sam Kirk on October 20, 2017. Sam Kirk is a multi-disciplinary artist based in Chicago. She will host an interactive workshop and give a keynote focusing on her identities as a local, Chicago artist, Woman of Color, and member of the LGBTQIA+ community. The WLA collects the records of women artists. To learn more about individual artist’s collections, go to our website, Collections > Manuscript Collections at luc.edu/wla/collections.shtml#d.en.79163.
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  • Marie Skłodowska Curie: Piecing Together the Historical Puzzle

    Marie Skłodowska Curie: Piecing Together the Historical Puzzle

    Join us on Thursday, October 26, 2017, for the 5th Annual Focus on the Book: "Marie Skłodowska Curie: Piecing Together the Historical Puzzle" presented by Dr. Helena Pycior. Dr. Pycior, Professor Emerita of the Department of History at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, will discuss how Marie Skłodowska Curie, renowned scientist and twice Nobel Prize winner, became known as the “healer of cancer.” Curie was named an Honorary Member of Polish Women’s Alliance in 1921, and the organization helped fund her research. Focus on the Book is presented by Loyola University Chicago Libraries and the Newberry Library in collaboration with the Women & Leadership Archives and Council 27 of Polish Women’s Alliance of America.
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  • Chicago Open Archives 2017: Hidden Stories

    Chicago Open Archives 2017: Hidden Stories

    Guerilla art! Communists! A bowling poet!...? Explore some of the unique stories told through our collections during our open house on Friday, October 27, 2017. #ChicagoOpenArchives 2017
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  • Fall 2017 Hours

    Monday 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. Tuesday 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. Wednesday 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. Thursday 8:30 a.m. - 7 p.m. Friday 8:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m.

  • Mundelein College Records Grant Completed!

    The Women and Leadership Archives is pleased to announce completion of an Illinois State Records Advisory Board (ISHRAB) 2016-2017 grant. WLA received a $5,000 grant from ISHRAB to re-organize and make more accessible the records of Mundelein College. The College operated from 1930-1991 and when it closed, was the last all women’s college in Illinois. Loyola’s University Libraries and Gannon Center for Women also contributed funding to the project. Recent Loyola graduate, Caroline Gianakopulos, led the grant project and produced a finding aid, or road map, for the records of Mundelein College. Click here to see the finding aid. A big thank you to ISHRAB and Loyola’s University Libraries and Gannon Center for Women!
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  • The Polish Women's Alliance and the WLA team up to preserve records

    The Polish Women's Alliance and the WLA team up to preserve records

    The Polish Women's Alliance (PWA) and the Women and Leadership Archives (WLA) have teamed up for the PWA Preservation Project. The PWA is one of the oldest fraternal benefit societies founded by women to help them and those they care about establish financial security and economic independence. Click to learn more about ongoing fundraising efforts to preserve the PWA records at the WLA.
  • Researching at the WLA

    Researching at the WLA

    Want to know how to research at an archives? Find out how to use the Women and Leadership Archives (WLA) in this short video created by Graduate Assistant Ellen Bushong. Lu Wolf, mascot of Loyola University Chicago, experiences the archives first-hand and learns how to use our finding aids, navigate the WLA website, and how to properly handle documents, photos, journals, and much more!
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    History

    Why is there an angel on our webpage?

    Curious as to why there is an angel on the side of our page? Click here to learn more!