Pop-Up Library: Authors@Alden

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Visit the Pop-Up Library at the next installment of Authors@Alden. Sign up for an ACPL library card, check out some library books, and register to vote!

Dr. Sara Egge, author of Woman Suffrage and Citizenship in the Midwest, in conversation with Dr. Katherine Jellison, Professor of History at Ohio University.

2020 marks the 100th anniversary of the passing and ratification of the 19th Amendment to the Constitution granting women the right to vote. Dr. Sara Egge's book documents the suffrage movement in the midwest specifically, highlighting how important each state's actions were in the lead-up to this momentous shift in American and women's history.