The blog of the Center for Women’s History at the New-York Historical Society highlights exhibitions, programs, and education while promoting women’s history through original research, interviews, and guest posts. Here is an interesting essay from that blog by Valerie Paley that appears in Walk this Way: Footwear from the Stuart Weitzman Collection of Historic Shoes, the catalog that accompanies the exhibition of the same name, Walk this Way, which recently opened.

 

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