Radcliffe: Seven Stories for Seven Decades: Tales from the Vault Spanning Schlesinger Library’s First 75 Years A Schlesinger Library 75th Anniversary Event

Date: 

Wednesday, May 16, 2018, 7:00pm

Location: 

SLS Hotel—Beverly Hills, 465 S La Cienega Blvd Los Angeles, CA 90048

In this illustrated lecture, Jane Kamensky, professor of history and the Pforzheimer Foundation Director of the Schlesinger Library at the Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University, uses seven jewels from the library’s collections to tell fresh stories of American history in the 20th century and look ahead to the 21st.

Topics will include women’s rights and civil rights, the sexual revolution and the remaking of the American family, and the actions and activism of American women abroad from World War II to the present day.

Reception 6 PM, lecture 7 PM

Please register and join us.