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Join the Library’s monthly reading and discussion series addressing topics in history and the humanities. Discussions are led by guest scholars. Books may be picked up from the Library's front desk during regular business hours.
REGISTRATION: https://brighamlibrary.org/event/7923539
This program has received funding from Utah Humanities (UH). UH improves communities through active engagement in the humanities.
New Women in the Old West: From Settlers to Suffragists, an Untold American Story
by Gallagher, Winnifred.
Scholar: Rebecca Andersen, PhD, USU.
In New Women in the Old West, Winifred Gallagher brings to life the riveting history of the little-known women--the White, Black, and Asian settlers, and the Native Americans and Hispanics they displaced--who played monumental roles in one of America's most transformative periods. Like western history in general, the record of women's crucial place at the intersection of settlement and suffrage has long been overlooked. Drawing on an extraordinary collection of research, Gallagher weaves together the striking legacy of the persistent individuals who not only created homes on weather-wracked prairies and built communities in muddy mining camps, but also played a vital, unrecognized role in the women's rights movement and forever redefined the American woman. |
