Elaine Weiss' Book
The Woman's Hour by ISBN: 9780698407831Publication Date: 2018-03-06The nail-biting climax of one of the greatest political battles in American history: the ratification of the constitutional amendment that granted women the right to vote. Following a handful of remarkable women who led their respective forces into battle, along with appearances by Woodrow Wilson, Warren Harding, Frederick Douglass, and Eleanor Roosevelt, The Woman's Hour is an inspiring story of activists winning their own freedom in one of the last campaigns forged in the shadow of the Civil War, and the beginning of the great twentieth-century battles for civil rights.
Our Vote: History, Advocacy and Justice
The 2019 Soles Lecture will be kicking off a three-semester long teaching initiative called, "OUR VOTE: History, Advocacy and Justice." This is a University-wide program engaging classes, events, and activities across campus from Fall 2019 through Fall 2020, in celebration of the 19th Amendment.
James Soles Lecture
Elaine Weiss is a Baltimore-based journalist and author, whose feature writing has been recognized with prizes from the Society of Professional Journalists; her byline has appeared in many national publications, as well as in reports for National Public Radio. Her first book, Fruits of Victory:The Woman's Land Army in the Great War was excerpted in Smithsonian Magazine online and featured on C-Span.
Weiss' new book, The Woman's Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote (Viking/Penguin) has won glowing reviews from the New York Times, Wall St. Journal, Christian Science Monitor, and NPR, among others, hailed as a "riveting, nail-biting political thriller" with powerful parallels to today's political environment. She has presented talks about the book and the woman suffrage movement at the Library of Congress, National Archives, New York Historical Society, and many other venues. The Woman's Hour won the American Bar Association's highest honor, the 2019 Silver Gavel Award. Steven Speilberg's Amblin production company has optioned the book for adaptation, with Hillary Rodham Clinton serving as Executive Producer.
Constitution Panel
To register for the event visit: https://www.history.udel.edu/news/Pages/Constitution-Panel.aspx