Lectures tagged "women's history"

Civil War Wives
Carol Berkin
October 12, 2009
00:46:21
Carol Berkin, Presidential Professor at Baruch College in New York, discusses her revelatory new book, Civil War Wives. It focuses on the life and times of three wives -- Julia Dent Grant,wife Of U.S.
Women Against the Vote: Anti-Suffragists in Massachusetts
Aliza Saivetz
March 12, 2009
00:37:31
Aliza Saivetz of Old South Meeting House, and Jayne Gordon and Kathleen Barker of the Massachusetts Historical Society explore women's participation in the anti-suffrage movement.
Suffrage and Beyond: Boston Women's Legal History
Bonnie Hurd Smith
March 5, 2009
00:38:48
Local historian Bonnie Hurd Smith looks at four centuries of women's legal history in Boston, as discussed in her recent book Boston Women & The Law.
Vindication: A Life of Mary Wollstonecraft
Lyndall Gordon
October 5, 2005
00:55:10
Author Lyndall Gordon argues that Mary Wollstonecraft was not a born genius--she became one. Gordon discusses how this independent, compassionate woman who devised a blueprint for human change achieved that distinction.