Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Frances Willard stands behind her mother, at left, and Anna B. Gordon, who worked as a secretary and lived in the Willard ...

On Sunday, January 23, Professor of History of Christianity and Methodist Studies Christopher Evans was the featured speaker for the online event “Views: Women, Faith, and Activism” hosted by the ...

In 1859, Frances Willard graduated as part of the first class at North-Western Female College. She pushed for equal coeducation at unaffiliated Northwestern University before becoming the first dean ...

From outside the Frances Willard House Museum, at 1730 Chicago Avenue in Evanston, the Victorian exterior makes it easy to imagine refined family life and elegant celebrations. Built in 1865, the ...

With her mother the relation was closest of all. Mrs. Willard reared her daughter to be a notable woman, made her worthy to be so, and lived to see her so, with infinite satisfaction. And Frances’s ...

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JANESVILLE — A new lecture series will debut next week in Janesville by celebrating 19th Century teacher and women’s rights advocate Frances Willard. The Rock County Historical Society will launch the ...

One of Scranton’s best known schools and the subject of Pam Beesly’s art project on NBC’s “The Office,” was named after a figure largely lost to history – Frances Willard. A founding force in the ...

(The Conversation) — A historian highlights the role of Frances Willard, who helped found the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union, one of the major social movements of the 19th and 20th centuries. (The ...