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]
Lady Bird Johnson visits the National Museum of American History First Ladies Hall with granddaughter Claudia (left), and museum employees Edith Mayo and Manuel Melendez (on right), 1987
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.