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The House Armed Services Subcommittee on Military Personnel held a hearing on combating sexual assault at military service academies. The hearing focused on an annual Defense Department report on…

Sohaila Abdulali, a survivor of rape, examined societal views on sexual assault and rape.

University of Kentucky Professor DaMaris Hill chronicled the lives of African-American women in social and political movements, from Harriet Tubman to today.

The National Commission on the Observance of International Women’s Year 1975 sponsored this conversation with Rep. Martha Griffith (D-Michigan), Rep. Patsy Mink (D-Hawaii) and Wendy Ross of the U.S. Information Service.…

Anne Sebba provided a history of women in Paris under Nazi occupation during World War II. She spoke at the Rancho Mirage Writers Festival in California.

Texas Woman’s University Professor Katherine Landdeck taught a class about the ways American women contributed to the World War II effort. She detailed the expectations for women on the…

Editor Glory Edim and contributors Mahogany Browne, Renee Watson, Veronica Chambers, Carla Bruce-Eddings, and Bsrat Mezghebe talked about the Well-Read Black Girl Anthology.

House Republican leadership members, female political experts and former campaign staffers spoke at the launch event for Representative Elise Stefanik’s (R-NY) political action committee, which…

On the day of President Trump’s State of the Union address, Representative Brenda Lawrence (D-MI) and other members of the Democratic Women’s Working Group talked about the state of women…

Cornell University history professor Mary Beth Norton presented a talk titled “Reflections on Gender in Anglo-America.” The lecture was based on four books she published between 1980 and 2011:…

Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) was joined by other House Democrats and equal pay activists to reintroduce the Paycheck Fairness Act, ten years after the signing of the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay…

Authors Blair Imani, Nafissa Thompson-Spires, Bridgett Davis, and Camille Acker talked about the importance of writing about overlooked figures in American history.

Eileen Rivers was interviewed at the National Press Club’s Book Fair. She talked about her book, Beyond the Call: Three Women on the Front Lines in Afghanistan, on women in the military.…

Political insiders Donna Brazile, Yolanda Caraway, Leah Daughtry, and Minyon Moore talked about their book, For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Politics, in which they reflect on their…

Author and journalist Patricia Miller discussed her book, Bringing Down the Colonel: A Sex Scandal of the Gilded Age, and the “Powerless” Woman Who Took On Washington, about a late…

Elaine Weiss was interviewed at the National Press Club’s Book Fair. She talked about her book, The Woman’s Hour, on the women’s suffrage movement.

Advocates for women’s rights took part in the third annual Women’s March. The first women’s march was held following the inauguration of President Donald Trump. Due to the government shutdown,…

Young adult authors Renee Watson, Ibi Zoboi, Rita Williams-Garcia, and Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich talk about their work.

A panel of historians discussed the ways white settlers, federal troops, and Native Americans interacted and challenges these groups faced on the Western Frontier. Topics included gender…

Glory Edim, Well-Read Black Girl founder, delivered the welcome address followed by a keynote address by poet and activist Patricia Smith. Prior to Ms. Smith, the program featured a musical…