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The “Write” Stuff Family Activities
Meet award-winning authors and illustrators and engage in hands-on activities that explore methods and unveil strategies they use to integrate research in their works.
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The “Write” Stuff Author Conversations
Join award-winning authors and illustrators to learn about the writing, illustration, and research that go into making a book.
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Iron Jawed Angels
The film "Iron Jawed Angels" tells the remarkable story of a group of young women who put their lives on the line to fight for American women’s right to vote.
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Opening Event of "The People"
The People, a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization, present a discussion on civic responsibility and how to change the political climate for the better.
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Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow
In Stony the Road, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., offers a new rendering of the struggle by African Americans for equality after the Civil War.
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Unexampled Courage: The Blinding of Sgt. Isaac Woodard
In 1946 an African American veteran was removed from a bus, arrested, beaten, and blinded. Richard Gergel details the impact of Woodard’s blinding as the racial awakening of President Truman.
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Not for Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Susan B. Anthony, part 2
Part 2 of Ken Burns's award-winning documentary about these two pioneers of the women's movement.
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Not for Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Susan B. Anthony, part 1
Part 1 of Ken Burns's award-winning documentary about these two pioneers of the women's movement.
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Women and the Vote: The 19th Amendment, Power, Media, and the Making of a Movement
A panel will discuss the unparalleled communications machine of the suffrage movement and how that struggle in the early 1900s continues to shape the women’s movement today.
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A Good American Family: The Red Scare and My Father
In "A Good American Family," David Maraniss recounts his family’s ordeal during the Red Scare of the 1950s.