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Rebecca Roberts talked about her book, Untold Power, about first lady Edith Wilson and the significance of women’s history month.

Rebecca Roberts talked about her book, Untold Power: The Fascinating Rise and Complex Legacy of First Lady Edith Wilson, a biography of First Lady Edith Wilson. She talked about Mrs. Wilson’…

Scholars of first ladies reconsidered Woodrow Wilson’s second wife, Edith, discussing her political influence and actions in the White House. Edith Wilson was first lady from 1915 to 1921. T…

Three scholars who have written books about women’s suffrage participated in a discussion titled: “Women and the Vote: The 19th Amendment, Power, Media, and the Making of a Movement.” The Na…

Author Rebecca Roberts talked about the decade leading up to the passage of the 19th Amendment and how women gained their right to vote through marching, picketing, and persistence. Ms. Robe…

A funeral mass was held for Cokie Roberts, an ABC and NPR journalist who died on September 17, 2019. Speakers at the Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle service included her husband Steven …

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) hosted a reception in the U.S. Capitol to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the House of Representatives passing the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitut…

Historian Elisabeth Griffith examined the legacy of the 19th Amendment giving women the right to vote and pondered the question: did suffrage matter? With women currently making up only twen…

Rebecca Boggs Roberts was interviewed at the National Press Club’s Book Fair. She talked about her book, Suffragists in Washington, D.C., on the women’s suffrage movement.

Author Rebecca Roberts told the story of women suffragists, led by Alice Paul, who marched from Capitol Hill to the White House in 1913. The parade, which took place the day before Woodrow W…

Historian Elisabeth Griffith examined the history of women in America from the 1770s to the 1850s, looking at their roles inside the home, occupations in the workforce, and their legal statu…

Jon Kukla talked about his book Patrick Henry: Champion of Liberty, in which he recounts the life of Patrick Henry, a champion of American independence from Britain, who is most commonly rem…

Historian Spencer Crew talked about the Great Migration, during which over six million African Americans moved after World War I from the rural South to urban areas in the North and West. He…

Professor Robyn Muncy talked about women’s voting rights following ratification of the 19th Amendment in 1920. She focused on African Americans in the South as well as Native Americans and d…

Dave Jackson talked about Washington, D.C.'s historic Oak Hill Cemetery. Located in the capital’s Georgetown neighborhood, the cemetery serves as the final resting place for many politicians…

Pamela Scott talked about her book Capital Engineers: The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in the Development of Washington, D.C., 1790-2004, in which she looks at the role of the Army Corps of …

Tom Lewis talked about his book Washington: A History of Our National City, in which he provides a history of Washington, D.C., from George Washington’s decision on the ten-mile site as the …

Anthony S. Pitch, author of The Burning of Washington: The British Invasion of 1814, talked about the attack during the War of 1812 that led to the only foreign occupation of the U.S. capita…

Rebecca Roberts gave a tour of Washington’s Congressional Cemetery as she talked about its history and some of the people buried there. Located 18 blocks from the U.S. Capitol, for much of t…

Rebecca Roberts gave a tour of Washington’s Congressional Cemetery as she talked about its history and some of the people buried there, focusing on some of her favorite people forgotten by h…