February 2019
Scholars Lecture – The Woman’s Hour: The Great Fights to Win the Vote
Thursday, February 21. Elaine Weiss, The Woman’s Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote. Weiss tells the gripping story of the climax of the fight to ratify the 19th Amendment, replete with heroism, skullduggery, and suspense, coordination and conflict with other reform movements, and leadership by individuals famous and less than famous. The book has been optioned by Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Television, to become a movie or limited series. Weiss is also the author of Fruits of Victory: The…
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Scholar’s Lecture – No Property in Man: Slavery and Antislavery at the Nation’s Founding
Thursday, March 14. Sean Wilentz, No Property in Man: Slavery and Antislavery at the Nation’s Founding. Rather than presenting the Constitution as a cynical political bargain enshrining slavery in the new nation, Wilentz argues that it actually restricted slavery’s legitimacy, and kept alive the eventual possibility of antislavery politics at the national level. Wilentz is the George Henry Davis 1886 Professor of American History at Princeton, author of seven other books and co-author or editor of many more, and the…
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