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Richard Norton Smith and Rosalyn Terborg-Penn talked about the life and influence of first lady Mary Lincoln and responded to telephone calls and electronic communications. Topics included h…

Historians and activists reflected on the historical arc of the civil rights movement. This discussion was part of a three-day conference called “The Future of the African American Past.…

Panelists talked about how the late 19th and early 20th century temperance and suffrage movements complemented each other and led to increased economic, social, and political activity by wom…

Women journalists and authors talked about the role of the media in the women’s suffrage movement and how they have helped and hurt the cause in the last century. They spoke at a National Pr…

Historians talked about the role of the first lady of the United States and how it had evolved through history. They gave examples of the differences between various first ladies. The paneli…

In commemoration of the 90th anniversary of women gaining their Constitutional right to vote by the passage of the 19th Amendment, scholars talked about the women’s suffrage movement and its…

Rosayln Terborg-Penn, Sharon Harley, and Crystal Feimster talked about the book to which they contributed, Telling Histories: Black Women Historians in the Ivory Tower (The University of Nor…

From the Department of the Interior, a panel of scholars who focused on new books and new approaches. Participants talked about the impact Frederick Douglass, his writings and his orations h…

In a forum marking the 75th anniversary of the 19th Amendment, Southern Mississippi University Professor Majorie Wheeler reviewed the history of women’s suffrage in the various states of the…