Mary Kelley Lecture and Book signing March 19, 2007

"Learning to Stand and Speak: Women, Education, and Public Life in America's Republic"

In her newest book, Learning to Stand and Speak: Women, Education, and Public Life in America's Republic Mary Kelley examines the ways in which education transformed women's lives in post-revolutionary and antebellum America. She argues that women's liberal learning, fostered by female academies and seminaries, played a key role in one of the most profound changes in gender relations in the nation's history: the movement of women into public life. Mary Kelley is Ruth Bordin Collegiate Professor of History, American Culture, and Women's Studies at the University of Michigan.

This event is free and open to the public, but reservations are requested. Please call 617-646-0560 or email [email protected] to register.
This event will be held at the Massachusetts Historical Society, 1154 Boylston Street,

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