Calendar of Events
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April 24 Wednesday
Washington, DC - 7:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. EDT
Evan Thomas's authoritative biography of America’s first female Supreme Court justice is based on exclusive interviews and first-time access to Justice O’Connor’s archives. -
April 29 Monday
Washington, DC - 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. EDTStephanie E. Jones-Rogers's book bridges women’s history, the history of the South, and African American history. -
April 30 Tuesday
Washington, DC - 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. EDT
Hugh Mangum’s photographs are an unparalleled document of life in the turbulent history of the American South at the turn of the 20th century. -
May 2 Thursday
Washington, DC - 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. EDT
Author Michael Dobbs tells the powerful story of German Jews from the village of Kippenheim who sought American visas to escape Nazi Germany. -
May 10 Friday
Washington, DC - 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. EDT
Author Susan Ware looks beyond the national leadership and gives voice to the thousands of women who protested, petitioned, and insisted on their rights -
May 10 Friday
Washington, DC - 4:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. EDT
In this one-woman performance, Kate Cambell Stevenson combines music and theater to tell the story of the fight for the ratification of the 19th Amendment. -
May 11 Saturday
Washington, DC - 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. EDT
Visit the hands-on discovery carts to investigate the journey of American women’s fight to win the vote. -
May 15 Wednesday
Washington, DC - 10:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. EDT
Join us for story time designed for 3- to 5-year-olds and accompanying adults. The theme for May is baseball. -
May 16 Thursday
Washington, DC - 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. EDT
In "A Good American Family," David Maraniss recounts his family’s ordeal during the Red Scare of the 1950s. -
May 16 Thursday
Washington, DC - 7:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. EDT
A panel will discuss the unparalleled communications machine of the suffrage movement and how that struggle in the early 1900s continues to shape the women’s movement today. -
May 17 Friday
Washington, DC - 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. EDTPart 1 of Ken Burns's award-winning documentary about these two pioneers of the women's movement. -
May 21 Tuesday
Washington, DC - 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. EDT
In 1946 an African American veteran was removed from a bus, arrested, beaten, and blinded. Richard Gergel details the impact of Woodard’s blinding as the racial awakening of President Truman. -
May 23 Thursday
Washington, DC - 7:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. EDT
Author Pamela Nadell weaves together stories of extraordinary women who helped carve out a Jewish American identity. -
May 24 Friday
Washington, DC - 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. EDTPart 2 of Ken Burns's award-winning documentary about these two pioneers of the women's movement. -
May 28 Tuesday
Washington, DC - 7:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. EDT
In Stony the Road, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., offers a new rendering of the struggle by African Americans for equality after the Civil War. -
May 31 Friday
Washington, DC - 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. EDTPart 3 of Ken Burns's award-winning documentary about these two pioneers of the women's movement.