Aug
25
11:30pm
Women You Should Know: An Evening with Alexis Coe & Kimberly Hamlin
By The Mercantile Library
Join historians Alexis Coe and Kimberly Hamlin in conversation as they discuss some Women You Should Know as well as their respective books.
Coe is the author of You Never Forget Your First: A Biography of George Washington and Alice + Freda Forever: A Murder in Memphis.
Hamlin, our 2020 Annual Meeting lecturer, is the author of From Eve to Evolution: Darwin, Science, and Women’s Rights in Gilded Age America and Free Thinker: Sex, Suffrage, and the Extraordinary Life of Helen Hamilton Gardener.
This virtual program is part of our Allgood-McLean: Women You Should Know series, co-founded by Hamlin.
New York Times bestselling author Alexis Coehas frequently appeared on CNN and the History Channel, and has contributed to The New York Times, The New Yorker, and many other publications. She is a host of Audible’s Presidents Are People Too! and No Man’s Land. Since December 2020, she has authored the Substack newsletter, Study Marry Kill. Coe holds a graduate degree in American history and was a research curator at the New York Public Library. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.
Kimberly A. Hamlin is an award-winning historian, author, and professor specializing in the history of women, gender, and sex in the United States. Hamlin contributes to the Washington Post’s “Made by History” column and other media, and she regularly speaks to audiences across the country about women’s and gender history. She is a member of the Organization of American Historians Distinguished Lecturer Bureau and the Ohio Humanities Council Speaker’s Bureau. Her research on women, gender, science, and politics has been featured in various media outlets including NPR and CBC radio, Vice, and qz.com. She is a Professor of History and Global and Intercultural Studies at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.
This program is FREE and open to the public.
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