Created more than a decade ago, Save America's Treasures (SAT) has boosted the economy in communities all over the country; created thousands of jobs; and has helped preserve more than 1,100 important places, documents, collections and works of art.
Now that Women’s History Month is upon us, it’s worth noting that SAT has also played a key role in saving and celebrating a great many treasures associated with women, including the Alabama birthplace of Helen Keller, the Massachusetts house where Louisa May Alcott and her family lived, the archives of legendary dancer Martha Graham, and the homes of reclusive poet Emily Dickinson and the decidedly un-reclusive (and famously unsinkable) Molly Brown. Despite this impressive record, SAT has been cut out of the proposed federal budget for next year. Help save this valuable program »
Activists & Political Figures
From the bus where Rosa Parks took a stand by refusing to give up her seat to the home where Eleanor Roosevelt wrote, entertained, and did much of her work as a delegate to the United Nations, Save America's Treasures has preserved the places critical to understanding some of America's preeminent female activits and politcial figures.
Women of Letters
American literature is full of iconic women, including frontier heroine Willa Cather, New England's reclusive Emily Dickinson, Southern novelist Eudora Welty, and many others. Federal preservation funding has opened their homes so that scholars and fans alike can experience the places that influenced them.
