Page Harrington is a nationally recognized public historian and consultant specializing in Progressive Era women’s history. For Girl Scouts of the USA, she managed an historic collection of more than 60k objects, led a research team in Manhattan, advised the Juliette Gordon Low Birthplace in Savannah, Georgia as well as the 111 Girl Scout council history committees across the country. As the former Executive Director of the Sewall-Belmont House & Museum in Washington, DC, she worked internally with the Board of Directors and externally with the National Park Service, the U.S. Congress, and the Obama Administration to secure the designation of the museum to the Belmont-Paul Women’s Equality National Monument in 2016.
Page holds two master’s degrees from the University of San Diego—the first in Public History and Historic Preservation and second in Non-Profit Management and Leadership. Her first book Interpreting the Legacy of Suffrage (Rowman & Littlefield, 2021) shares an updated historic narrative that is inclusive of the full breadth of the women’s enfranchisement movement, including the pervasive bias and racism, and offers practical solutions and techniques for bringing about a larger shift in organizational culture of museums.
