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List of Maryland women featured on Ballot & Beyond: Victorine Q.

Mellon Foundation and administered through the Federation of State Humanities Councils for its new initiative, “Why It Matters: Civic and Electoral Participation.”įirst Lady Yumi Hogan and Delegate Brooke Lierman were supportive of Preservation Maryland award nominations for the project and submitted official letters of support. Preservation Maryland crafted eight videos with historic maps and archival images for eight Ballot & Beyond episodes thanks to support from Maryland Humanities through The Voices and Votes Electoral Engagement Project is supported by the Andrew W.

Thirty-one researchers, writers, editors, and readers worked on fifty-five episodes that highlight the accomplishments of sixty-five remarkable Maryland women.Ĭommenting on the task of selecting the cohort of women featured on the podcast, Diana Bailey, Executive Director of Maryland Women’s Heritage Area, explained, “We are especially concerned with representing the critical intersectionality of race and gender in the history of the suffrage movement as new documentation comes to light.” This award is shared with the Maryland Women’s Heritage Center. The Ballot & Beyond project was a collaborative project from the very beginning – and benefited from the many agencies, organizations, experts, and volunteers that brought years of research to a broad public audience. Preservation Maryland’s women’s suffrage public history project, Ballot & Beyond, has been recognized for Excellence in Media and Publications from the Maryland Historical Trust.īallot & Beyond is a free, on-demand online exhibit and podcast that serves to commemorate Maryland’s suffragists and show their legacy on more contemporary female leaders in Maryland.Īcross the fifty-five episodes, there is a great temporal, geographic, personal, and topic diversity – from Margaret Brent’s early suffrage efforts to Pauli Murray’s unique national impact, and from Rachel Carson’s research and writings to Henrietta Lack’s unending importance to science.

Preservation Maryland Wins Statewide Excellence Award for Ballot & Beyond Public History Project Representatives from Preservation Maryland, Maryland Women's Heritage Center, and Gallagher Evelius & Jones with Elizabeth Hughes, State Historic Preservation Officer, 2021.