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Wednesday September 7, 2016 at 7:00 PM EDT
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Wednesday November 2, 2016 at 9:00 PM EDT

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Moorestown Library 
111 West Second Street
Moorestown, NJ 08057-2481
 

 
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Celebrate Women: Women in American History with Jean Perry 

Join retired history professor, Jean Perry, and learn everything that you were never taught about the contributions of women to the history of our country.

Wednesday, September 7 at 7 PM
Why study about women in history?  Women in Colonial America, the first Americans—Europeans and African American women.  Opportunities, Occupations, Liberties,Marriage and Childbirth. 

Wednesday, September 14 at 7 PM
Revolutionary times.  Nurses, wives, spies, soldiers.  Opportunities —“yours, ours, mine”                 Push back — Republican motherhood

Wednesday, September 21 at 7 PM
Emerging women in a new world.  Pioneer, Educated, Immigrant, Reformer women.

Wednesday, October 5 at 7 PM
New liberties, Votes for women, Flappers, Birth control and all that jazz

Wednesday, October 19 at 7 PM
Surviving the Crises, Ma Perkins, Eleanor Roosevelt and Rosie the Riveter

Wednesday, November 2 at 7 PM
Struggles against injustice; New attitudes, new choices, new families.

Come learn the American history that was missing when you went to school!