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Erika Lee (2016 Fireside Reading Series)

February 22, 2016

In the past fifty years, Asian Americans have helped change the face of America and are now the fastest growing group in the United States. But as award-winning historian Erika…

Beth Dooley (2016 Fireside Reading Series)

February 15, 2016

In Winter’s Kitchen: Growing Roots and Breaking Bread in the Northern Heartland Coming from her native New Jersey, Beth Dooley had a lot of preconceptions about the Midwestern food scene.…

Faith Sullivan (2016 Fireside Reading Series)

January 27, 2016

Faith Sullivan returns to kick off the 22nd annual Fireside series with a reading from her new novel, Good Night, Mr. Wodehouse, which celebrates the strength and resourcefulness of independent women,…

Striving for Equality: Mexican Women in Minnesota History (2015 Women's History Lecture Series)

November 19, 2015

Mexican women helped shape their expatriate communities in Minnesota from the mid-20th century onward. Discover the important ways they fought for respect and equal treatment in the Twin Cities and in…

Sisterhood is (Again) Powerful (2015 Women's History Lecture Series)

November 5, 2015

Fifty years after women won the vote, feminism once again grabbed public attention in the 1970s.  A wide diversity of women began to advocate for equality under the law, in…

Battle for the Ballot (2015 Women's History Lecture Series)

October 30, 2015

Minnesota suffragists were a civilized contrast to the discord which marked the American suffrage movement. We will discuss how women like Colvin and Ueland found ways to work together to win…

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