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2026 Women's History Month Lecture

  • March 22, 2026 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
  • Eastern Daylight Time

Ticket Price $5.97 Register Now
Description

Make plans to attend our annual Women’s History Month Lecture on Sunday, March 22 at 2 p.m.! This special lecture will be given virtually by Dr. Laura F. Edwards on her 2022 history Only the Clothes on Her Back: Clothing and the Hidden History of Power in the Nineteenth-Century United States. Registrants will be sent a Zoom link prior to the lecture.

Laura F. Edwards is a legal historian whose research focuses on the nineteenth-century United States. She holds a B.A. in American Culture from Northwestern University, a Ph.D. in History from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and taught at Duke University for twenty years before coming to Princeton. She is the author of four other books: Gendered Strife and Confusion: The Political Culture of Reconstruction (1997), Scarlet Doesn’t Live Here Anymore: Southern Women in the Civil War Era (2001); The People and Their Peace: Legal Culture and the Transformation of Inequality in the Post-Revolutionary South (2009), and A Legal History of the Civil War and Reconstruction: A Nation of Rights (2015).

Date & Time

Sun, Mar 22, 2026 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Stratford Hall Historic Preserve

Stratford Hall brings together people from around the world to experience two-thousand acres of natural and human history, preserved and presented so that we can all learn from the courageous struggles of our ancestors, taking inspiration both from what they endured and what they accomplished. There are few places in America where people can travel down small, rural roads to arrive at a vast site that preserves so many aspects of early-American life, from the Great House where the influential Lee family helped to forge a new nation, to the fields worked by enslaved Africans, to the waters of the rivers that fueled trade, to the ground, which still yields secrets about the people and animals that lived before.

Come experience this extraordinary place and learn about a layered history that began millions of years ago - a history that continues to educate, inspire, and influence Americans to the present day.