watch list Want to see how the Schlesinger’s collections translate to the screen? Add these films to your watch list: Makers: Women Who Make America (Directed by Barak Goodman, 2013) The Abolitionists (Directed by Rob Rapley, 2013) Icebound (Directed by Daniel Anker, 2013) Pioneers of THIRTEEN: The ’70s— Bold and Fearless (WNET, 2013) Feminist: Stories from Women’s Liberation, 1963–1970 (Directed by Jennifer Lee, 2012) “No Job For a Woman”: The Women Who Fought to Report WWII (Directed by Michèle Midori Fillion, 2011) Prohibition (Directed by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, 2011) Leave Your Sleep (Directed by Natalie Merchant, 2010) Julie & Julia (Directed by Nora Ephron, 2009) They Made America: “Gamblers” (Directed by Patricia Garcia Rios, 2004) American Experience: Amelia Earhart (Directed by Nancy Porter, 1993) and watch for these films in progress: The Roosevelts: An Intimate History, a Ken Burns film coming to PBS in 2014 A Song of Hope: The Life Story of Pauli Murray (working title), by Time Travel Productions/ Margo Guernsey Harriet Beecher Stowe, a film by Katherine Brann Fredricks
Portrait of Betty Friedan working at a desk with a typewriter, ca.1950, from the Papers of Betty Friedan at the Schlesinger Library
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