Join a roundtable discussion with authors who contributed articles to the special fall 2020 issue of Minnesota History magazine, published by MNHS. This groundbreaking double issue, marking the centennial of the 19th Amendment, focused on new histories of woman suffrage and women’s rights. Roundtable participants will discuss the importance of studying Minnesota’s role in the American woman suffrage movement; the history of state’s legal initiatives and changes to the state constitution to include women voters; how women advocated for voting rights and shaped new ideas about citizenship; and how gender, ethnicity, and race shaped the movement in Minnesota. 

Q&A and discussion with the audience follows the roundtable. Audience members are encouraged to read the fall 2020 issue of Minnesota History prior to the program (available online or for purchase) and to view MNHS’s free online exhibit, Votes for Women. Please note that this program will not be recorded for later viewing. 

This session is co-sponsored by MNHS and Hamline University and Mitchell Hamline School of Law as part of Julia B. to Kamala D: From Woman Suffrage to Equal Rights, March 22–26, Hamline’s weeklong series of Women’s History Month events. 

Roundtable speakers:

• Annette Atkins, professor emerita of history, Saint John’s University/College of Saint Benedict
• Kristin Mapel Bloomberg, professor of women’s and gender studies, legal studies faculty affiliate, and Hamline University Endowed Chair in the Humanities
• Jacqueline deVries, professor of history, Augsburg University
• Elizabeth Dillenburg, assistant professor of history, Ohio State University at Newark.
• Hannah Dyson, Augsburg University, class of 2020
• Sara Egge, Claude D. Pottinger Associate Professor of History, Centre College, Kentucky
• William D. Green, professor of history and M. Anita Gay Hawthorne Professor of Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, Augsburg University
• Frederick L. Johnson, independent scholar; Minnesota regional history author
• Lori Ann Lahlum, professor of history, Minnesota State University Mankato
• Kate Roberts, senior exhibit developer, Minnesota Historical Society
• Laura Weber, editor, Minnesota History, Minnesota Historical Society
• J. D. Zahniser, independent scholar; co-author, Alice Paul: Claiming Power (Oxford, 2014/2019).