Mayo curated Rights for Women at the World Financial Center in 1998 and The Pleasure of Your Company at the Museum of Old Salem in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. She curated an exhibition about women entrepreneurs, called Enterprising Women, in 2002 for the Schlesinger Library.[10]
Smithsonian Institution
In the 1970s, Mayo was Political History Division Assistant Curator at the National Museum of American History.[12] She eventually transitioned into the position of curator emerita, managing major exhibitions about political history, women's history and voting rights.[8]
As curator emerita, she curated the major exhibit, From Parlor to Politics: Women and Reform in America, 1890-1925 in 1990 and in 1992 she curated the museum's major exhibition about the first ladies of the United States: First Ladies exhibition, First Ladies: Political Role and Public Image.[10] The exhibition toured nationally from 2004-2007.[13]
Author
Mayo's book The Smithsonian Book of the First Ladies was published in 1996. Hillary Clinton wrote the foreword.
The Smithsonian Book of the First Ladies. New York: Henry Holt & Company (1996). ISBN 978-0-8050-1751-9
"Teaching the First Ladies Using Material Culture" by Edith P. Mayo, OAH Magazine of History, vol. 15, no. 3, 2001, pp. 22–25. JSTOR[14]
First Ladies: Political Role and Public Image by Edith Mayo and Lisa Kathleen Graddy, London: Scala Publishers (2004) ISBN 1-85759-336-7
References
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^ a b"AllPolitics - Democracy In America '96 -- They Don't Bake Cookies". CNN. Retrieved January 8, 2020.
^Morse, Diana (October 28, 2007). "First ladies make history ** Phila. exhibit is so much more than gowns, shoes and handbags". The Morning Call. Retrieved January 8, 2020.
^Weingarten, Marc (May 20, 2004). "Shoulder to shoulder". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved January 8, 2020.
^"Online NewsHour: Inaugural Fashion". PBS. Retrieved January 8, 2020.
^Tan, Cheryl Lu-Lien (January 19, 2001). "Criticism befitting a first lady". baltimoresun.com. Retrieved January 8, 2020.
^Thompson, Krissah. "C-SPAN's series on first ladies begins, but Michelle Obama's legacy is still forming". The Washington Post. Retrieved January 8, 2020.
^ a b c d"2020 Honorees". National Women's History Alliance. Archived from the original on January 15, 2020. Retrieved January 8, 2020.
^Robert Hieronimus; Laura E. Cortner (August 15, 2016). The Secret Life of Lady Liberty: Goddess in the New World. Simon and Schuster. p. 449. ISBN 978-1-62055-159-2.
^ a b c d"Suffragists, Home Economists and First Ladies". The Colorado Chautauqua. Retrieved January 8, 2020.
^Doris Stevens (1995). Jailed for Freedom: American Women Win the Vote. NewSage Press. ISBN 978-0-939165-25-4.
^"Edith Mayo with 1913 Suffrage March Banner". Smithsonian Institution Archives. 1977. Retrieved January 8, 2020.
^"SITES Community Portal". Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service. Retrieved January 8, 2020.
^Mayo, Edith P. (Spring 2001). "Teaching the First Ladies Using Material Culture". OAH Magazine of History. 15 (3): 22–25. doi:10.1093/maghis/15.3.22. JSTOR 25163437.
Further reading
First Ladies: Presidential Historians on the Lives of 45 Iconic American Women by Susan Swain, New York City: PublicAffairs (2015) pp 77–80. ISBN 1-61039-566-2.