<description>&lt;p&gt;Our November episode of GirlSpeak honors US National Native American Heritage Month through exploring girls&amp;#39; letters who attended Carlisle Federal Indian Boarding School. Thousands of children were forced to attend these schools across North America for over 100 years. It is a heart-breaking and devastating history that is still very much alive today in the memories of many adults.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Thank you to the &lt;a href="https://boardingschoolhealing.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer"&gt;Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition&lt;/a&gt; for making these records available.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;To learn more, here are the full digitized collection of records from the &lt;a href="https://nibsda.elevator.umn.edu/search/s/3000035a-eef1-46d1-9de7-4d610e6951c2⁠" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer"&gt;Carlisle Indian School Digital Resource Center&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Abbie Somers: &lt;a href="https://carlisleindian.dickinson.edu/node/7414"&gt;https://carlisleindian.dickinson.edu/node/7414&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Ada Crouse: &lt;a href="https://carlisleindian.dickinson.edu/node/4805"&gt;https://carlisleindian.dickinson.edu/node/4805&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Agnes Waupano: &lt;a href="https://carlisleindian.dickinson.edu/node/5786"&gt;https://carlisleindian.dickinson.edu/node/5786&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Alice Logan: &lt;a href="https://carlisleindian.dickinson.edu/node/5542"&gt;https://carlisleindian.dickinson.edu/node/5542&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Alice Schuyler: &lt;a href="https://carlisleindian.dickinson.edu/node/6793"&gt;https://carlisleindian.dickinson.edu/node/6793&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Amy Atsye: &lt;a href="https://carlisleindian.dickinson.edu/node/6577"&gt;https://carlisleindian.dickinson.edu/node/6577&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;
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Our November episode of GirlSpeak honors US National Native American Heritage Month through exploring girls&#39; letters who attended Carlisle Federal Indian Boarding School. Thousands of children were forced to attend these schools across North America for over 100 years. It is a heart-breaking and devastating history that is still very much alive today in the memories of many adults. Thank you to the <a href="https://boardingschoolhealing.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition</a> for making these records available.To learn more, here are the full digitized collection of records from the <a href="https://nibsda.elevator.umn.edu/search/s/3000035a-eef1-46d1-9de7-4d610e6951c2⁠" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">Carlisle Indian School Digital Resource Center</a>. Abbie Somers: <a href="https://carlisleindian.dickinson.edu/node/7414">https://carlisleindian.dickinson.edu/node/7414</a>Ada Crouse: <a href="https://carlisleindian.dickinson.edu/node/4805">https://carlisleindian.dickinson.edu/node/4805</a>Agnes Waupano: <a href="https://carlisleindian.dickinson.edu/node/5786">https://carlisleindian.dickinson.edu/node/5786</a>Alice Logan: <a href="https://carlisleindian.dickinson.edu/node/5542">https://carlisleindian.dickinson.edu/node/5542</a>Alice Schuyler: <a href="https://carlisleindian.dickinson.edu/node/6793">https://carlisleindian.dickinson.edu/node/6793</a>Amy Atsye: <a href="https://carlisleindian.dickinson.edu/node/6577">https://carlisleindian.dickinson.edu/node/6577</a>

Girls' Letters from the Carlisle Federal Indian Boarding School 

<description>&lt;p&gt;In this month&amp;#39;s episode, Head Girl Ashley E. Remer discusses the International Day of the Girl Child and the 2025 theme- ‘The girl I am, the change I lead: Girls on the frontlines of crisis’. She talks about the Girl Goals report and shines a spotlight on Afghanistan with refugee Tahera&amp;#39;s inspirational words.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Here are some links for more information. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.girlmuseum.org/my-beautiful-dream-being-a-girl-should-not-be-a-crime/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer"&gt;https://www.girlmuseum.org/my-beautiful-dream-being-a-girl-should-not-be-a-crime/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.un.org/en/observances/girl-child-day"&gt;https://www.un.org/en/observances/girl-child-day&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.unicef.org/take-action/campaigns/adolescent-girls-rights"&gt;https://www.unicef.org/take-action/campaigns/adolescent-girls-rights&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.unwomen.org/en/articles/explainer/inside-the-crisis-you-dont-see-how-war-impacts-womens-mental-health"&gt;https://www.unwomen.org/en/articles/explainer/inside-the-crisis-you-dont-see-how-war-impacts-womens-mental-health&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://plan-international.org/un/our-priorities/girls-in-crises/"&gt;https://plan-international.org/un/our-priorities/girls-in-crises/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Join our community by &lt;a href="https://girlmuseum.org" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer"&gt;visiting Girl Museum&lt;/a&gt;, sharing our museum with your friends, and becoming a &lt;a href="https://www.patreon.com/girlmuseum" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer"&gt;supporter&lt;/a&gt; of our work through our &lt;a href="https://www.patreon.com/girlmuseum" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer"&gt;Patreon&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
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In this month&#39;s episode, Head Girl Ashley E. Remer discusses the International Day of the Girl Child and the 2025 theme- ‘The girl I am, the change I lead: Girls on the frontlines of crisis’. She talks about the Girl Goals report and shines a spotlight on Afghanistan with refugee Tahera&#39;s inspirational words. Here are some links for more information. <a href="https://www.girlmuseum.org/my-beautiful-dream-being-a-girl-should-not-be-a-crime/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">https://www.girlmuseum.org/my-beautiful-dream-being-a-girl-should-not-be-a-crime/</a><a href="https://www.un.org/en/observances/girl-child-day">https://www.un.org/en/observances/girl-child-day</a><a href="https://www.unicef.org/take-action/campaigns/adolescent-girls-rights">https://www.unicef.org/take-action/campaigns/adolescent-girls-rights</a><a href="https://www.unwomen.org/en/articles/explainer/inside-the-crisis-you-dont-see-how-war-impacts-womens-mental-health">https://www.unwomen.org/en/articles/explainer/inside-the-crisis-you-dont-see-how-war-impacts-womens-mental-health</a><a href="https://plan-international.org/un/our-priorities/girls-in-crises/">https://plan-international.org/un/our-priorities/girls-in-crises/</a>Join our community by <a href="https://girlmuseum.org" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">visiting Girl Museum</a>, sharing our museum with your friends, and becoming a <a href="https://www.patreon.com/girlmuseum" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">supporter</a> of our work through our <a href="https://www.patreon.com/girlmuseum" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">Patreon</a>.

International Day of the Girl 2025

<description>&lt;p&gt;In this month&amp;#39;s episode of GirlSpeak, Education Advisor Hillary Rose discusses the letters between Daisy Bell and her father Alexander Graham Bell, inventor and scientist. This correspondence was between 1895 and 1902, when Daisy was 15 to 22 years old.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The original letters are all held in the Library of Congress. Here is the &lt;a href="https://www.loc.gov/search/?fa=partof:alexander+graham+bell+family+papers,+1834-1974.:+family+papers" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer"&gt;link&lt;/a&gt; to the family&amp;#39;s papers for you to explore all the letters.&lt;/p&gt;
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In this month&#39;s episode of GirlSpeak, Education Advisor Hillary Rose discusses the letters between Daisy Bell and her father Alexander Graham Bell, inventor and scientist. This correspondence was between 1895 and 1902, when Daisy was 15 to 22 years old. The original letters are all held in the Library of Congress. Here is the <a href="https://www.loc.gov/search/?fa=partof:alexander+graham+bell+family+papers,+1834-1974.:+family+papers" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">link</a> to the family&#39;s papers for you to explore all the letters.

Daisy Bell and her Father

<description>&lt;p&gt;This month we continue our GirlSpeak series on girls&amp;#39; letters and diaries with Resident Scholar Elizabeth Dillenburg discussing the journal of Black poet, educator, and abolitionist Charlotte Forten Grimké.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;More information on Grimké &lt;a href="https://pabook.libraries.psu.edu/literary-cultural-heritage-map-pa/bios/grimke__charlotte_forten" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="https://www.nps.gov/people/charlotte-forten-grimke.htm" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Visit &lt;a href="https://www.girlmuseum.org/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer"&gt;Girl Museum&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
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This month we continue our GirlSpeak series on girls&#39; letters and diaries with Resident Scholar Elizabeth Dillenburg discussing the journal of Black poet, educator, and abolitionist Charlotte Forten Grimké. More information on Grimké <a href="https://pabook.libraries.psu.edu/literary-cultural-heritage-map-pa/bios/grimke__charlotte_forten" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">here</a> and <a href="https://www.nps.gov/people/charlotte-forten-grimke.htm" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">here</a>.Visit <a href="https://www.girlmuseum.org/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Girl Museum</a>.

The Diary of Charlotte Forten Grimké

<description>&lt;p&gt;In a continuation of our series of girls&amp;#39; letters and diaries, this month Girl Museum&amp;#39;s Education Advisor Hillary Rose discusses girls&amp;#39; interests in STEM, their letters to astronauts, and the big questions of the universe.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Link to the Girl Museum &lt;a href="https://www.girlmuseum.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/DBQ-Girls-STEM-Cold-War.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer"&gt;DBQ&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Link to article about study of &lt;a href="https://www.edutopia.org/article/50-years-children-drawing-scientists/ " target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer"&gt;children drawing scientists&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Check our &lt;a href="https://www.girlmuseum.org/project/stem-girls/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer"&gt;STEM&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="https://www.girlmuseum.org/project/steam-girls/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer"&gt;STEAM Girls&lt;/a&gt; exhibitions at &lt;a href="https://www.girlmuseum.org/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer"&gt;Girl Museum&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
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In a continuation of our series of girls&#39; letters and diaries, this month Girl Museum&#39;s Education Advisor Hillary Rose discusses girls&#39; interests in STEM, their letters to astronauts, and the big questions of the universe. Link to the Girl Museum <a href="https://www.girlmuseum.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/DBQ-Girls-STEM-Cold-War.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">DBQ</a>Link to article about study of <a href="https://www.edutopia.org/article/50-years-children-drawing-scientists/ " target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">children drawing scientists</a>. Check our <a href="https://www.girlmuseum.org/project/stem-girls/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">STEM</a> and <a href="https://www.girlmuseum.org/project/steam-girls/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">STEAM Girls</a> exhibitions at <a href="https://www.girlmuseum.org/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Girl Museum</a>.

Girls' Letters to Astronauts

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