Suffrage: Women’s Long Battle for the Vote
(Simon & Schuster, 2020)

Please join us on Thursday, October 15, at 5 p.m., for a 2020 Virtual History Book Festival “Spirited Discussion” with Ellen Carol DuBois, author of Suffrage: Women’s Long Battle for the Vote (Simon & Schuster, 2020). DuBois will be interviewed by Anne M. Boylan. This event is free but registration is required.

About the book
Commemorating the 100th anniversary of the 19th amendment to the Constitution, this book explores the movement to win the vote for women through portraits of its bold leaders and devoted activists. Suffragists built a coalition of moderate lobbyists and radical demonstrators who forged a strategy of winning voting rights in crucial states, setting the stage for securing suffrage for all American women in the Constitution. The suffragists’ final victories in Congress and state legislatures, and the last, most difficult ratification, in Tennessee, are vividly described.

About the author
Ellen Carol DuBois is Distinguished Research Professor at UCLA, where she taught women's history. She is the coeditor of the anthology Unequal Sisters: A Multicultural Reader in Women's History and coauthor of Through Women’s Eyes: An American History with Documents.

Anne M. Boylan, Professor Emerita of History and Women and Gender Studies at the University of Delaware, will interview DuBois. Boylan is the contract historian for the Congressional Women’s Suffrage Centennial Commission. Her book Votes for Delaware Women is forthcoming from the University of Delaware Press.

How to attend the online event
The event will be shared using Zoom—an easy, reliable platform for video and audio conferencing. Here are basic written instructions for using Zoom and a brief video tutorial.

All registered attendees will receive a follow-up email from “LibCal” with Zoom log-in information. If you don’t receive this email after registering, please check your SPAM folder. If you still can’t locate the email, please contact info@historybookfestival.org.

Purchase the book
Please help support local independent bookstores by purchasing this book at Browseabout Books, official bookseller of the History Book Festival. Online sources and digital versions are tempting; however, supporting local brick and mortar shops helps to preserve our vibrant main streets. Drop by Browseabout, order books online, or call the store at 302-226-2665. You also may purchase a copy at biblion in Lewes. Each copy purchased comes with a signed archival bookplate.

About the Festival
2020 Virtual History Book Festival: Bring History Home is sponsored by Delaware Humanities and The Lee Ann Wilkinson Group.

The HBF “Spirited Discussion” is one of the types of programming offered this year at 2020 Virtual History Book Festival: Bring History Home. We are extremely grateful for the virtual venue and assistance in event promotion provided by the Lewes Public Library, in conjunction with the Delaware Division of Libraries and Sussex County Libraries.