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History Book Festival presents Ellen Carol DuBois | Suffrage: Women’s Long Battle for the Vote

History Book Festival presents Ellen Carol DuBois | Suffrage: Women’s Long Battle for the Vote

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In collaboration with the History Book Festival, join us to talk with Ellen Carol DuBois, author of Suffrage: Women’s Long Battle for the Vote, one of the books featured at the 2020 virtual History Book Festival.

Commemorating the 100th anniversary of the 19th amendment to the Constitution, this book explores the movement to win the vote for women through portraits of its bold leaders and devoted activists. Suffragists built a coalition of moderate lobbyists and radical demonstrators who forged a strategy of winning voting rights in crucial states, setting the stage for securing suffrage for all American women in the Constitution. The suffragists’ final victories in Congress and state legislatures, and the last, most difficult ratification, in Tennessee, are vividly described.

Ellen Carol DuBois is Distinguished Research Professor at UCLA, where she taught women's history. She is the coeditor of the anthology Unequal Sisters: A Multicultural Reader in Women's History and coauthor of Through Women’s Eyes: An American History with Documents. Anne M. Boylan, Professor Emerita of History and Women and Gender Studies at the University of Delaware, will interview DuBois. Boylan is the contract historian for the Congressional Women’s Suffrage Centennial Commission. Her book Votes for Delaware Women is forthcoming from the University of Delaware Press.  

We invite you to support the author by purchasing a copy of his book from the Festival's official bookseller, Browseabout Books, by clicking HERE. Call-in orders are accepted or you can stop by the store to purchase a copy. For store hours, please visit their website. You also may purchase a copy at biblion in Lewes. Each copy purchased comes with a signed archival bookplate.

NOTE: this meeting is being conducted through Zoom. You MUST REGISTER to receive instructions for joining the meeting.

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Date:
Thursday, October 15, 2020
Time:
5:00pm - 6:00pm Eastern Time
Library:
Lewes Public Library
Audience:
  Adults     Older Adults  
Categories:
  Book Discussions  
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