Join us on Tuesday, March 20, for a free lecture in honor of Women’s History Month!
Noted historian Rosemarie Zagarri, professor of history at George Mason University, will speak on “Women and Politics in the Era of the American Revolution.” Her talk will explore the central role women played in securing American independence, despite their formal exclusion from politics. She will discuss the individual contributions of women such as Mercy Otis Warren, Esther de Berdt Reed, and Phillis Wheatley, as well as women’s collective forms of participation before, during and after the American Revolution, and will also examine the changing meaning of “women’s rights” in the era of the Revolution.
The lecture will be co-sponsored by the James Monroe Museum, the UMW Department of History and American Studies and UMW’s Women’s and Gender Studies Program. A reception will follow.
The program will be held at 7 p.m. in the Great Hall, Woodard Campus Center, UMW campus. For a campus map and directions, go here.