SOA 2020 Annual Meeting Plenary: Kimberly Hamlin on Finding Sex, Race, and Suffrage in the Archives
Channel: The Society of Ohio Archivists
Date: 2020-06-17

Award-winning historian Kimberly A. Hamlin discussed the archival research she conducted for her new book, "Free Thinker: Sex, Suffrage, and the Extraordinary Life of Helen Hamilton Gardener." Helen Hamilton Gardener served as the suffragists’ lead negotiator in Washington, and "Free Thinker" is the first book to examine in detail how the 19th Amendment got through Congress, drawing on the papers of Woodrow Wilson and his staff, as well as those of various congressmen.

Plenary, Day 1, of Society of Ohio Archivists Annual Meeting (Virtual) June 16-17, 2020. #soaam20 See more, including speaker slides, at https://ohioarchivists.org/annual_conference/ 

This plenary is made possible in part by Ohio Humanities, a state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities.