Event Details - Personal and Political: Women’s History in Montana and Beyond

The MSU Billings Department of History is pleased to announce an original student research presentation in conjunction with Women’s History Month. Led by faculty member, Dr. Emily Arendt,  “Personal and Political: Women’s History in Montana and Beyond,” will feature three talks by MSUB history majors interested in gender history in regional and national perspectives on Wednesday, March 25 from 3 – 4:30 in LA 205. Tracey Miller will be exploring the emergence of the women’s rights movement on the national scale in the 1800s and considering how women’s involvement in politics opened the door to gender equality on a larger scale.  Thinking beyond partisan politics, James Ellis will be discussing the various forms of activism engaged in by women in Butte, Montana at the turn of the century.  Recognizing that individual women are as important in the history of America as large-scale social movements. This event is free and open to the public. For more information, please contact Dr. Jennifer Lynn (jennifer.lynn1@msubillings.edu) or stop by the Women’s and Gender Studies Center (LA 201), open from 9 – 4, Monday – Friday (406.657.2873).