Kathelene Smith, archivist at UNCG’s Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections & University Archives, talks about the amazing Harriet Elliott. Professor Elliott’s work mobilizing students during WWI helped shape her fight to get those students – and all women – the vote. Tracy Nash, President of the League of Women Voters of the Piedmont Triad, shares her organization’s […]

During World War I, Quaker educator Mary Mendenhall Hobbs (1852–1930) was a powerful voice for peace. Gwen Gosney Erickson, Friends Librarian and College Archivist at Guilford College, details Hobbs’s efforts to promote the newly formed American Friends Service Committee. Highlighting AFSC's ongoing work locally and internationally is Hector Rivera Suarez, from the AFSC Office of […]