Women in Constitutional History

Live from the Museum: Women of the Civil War and Reconstruction

Friday, Tuesday, March 19 | Noon ET

Run time: 45 minutes

Explore the Center’s compelling exhibit, Civil War and Reconstruction: The Battle for Freedom and Equality, as one of our museum educators leads viewers through the exhibit. Along the way, you’ll hear the stories of women central to the conflict over slavery.

Civic Stories: Four Harriets of History

Friday, Friday, March 29 | Noon ET

Run time: 20 minutes

Explore the lives of four American women—Harriet Robinson Scott, Harriet Tubman, Harriet Jacobs, and Harriet Beecher Stowe—who confronted slavery through literature, lawsuits, and direct action in their efforts to free themselves and others from bondage.

Artifact Spotlight: Anti-Vietnam War Armband

Run time: 4 minutes

In this Artifact Spotlight, Elena Popchock, manager of exhibit content, explores an armband associated with the landmark student speech case, Tinker v. Des Moines.

Professional Learning for Educators

The 19th Amendment Featuring Paula Monopoli

Wednesday, March 20 | 6:30–8 p.m. ET

Explore the ratification process of the 19th Amendment, which grew out of decades of advocacy by the suffragists and their allies, and its connections to federalism, as we discuss the beginning of women’s suffrage out West in the late 1800s and its eventual spread to the rest of the nation. We’ll also learn about the hard work of the people involved in the Civil Rights Movement years after ratification to extend voting rights to all women, including women of color. Paula Monopoli, the Sol & Carlyn Hubert Professor of Law at the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law, joins us.

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