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2026 Speaker Schedule for the Research and Interpretation Committee

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Third Monday of the Month, 3-4:30pm ET

By zoom – contact membership@ncwhs.org for URL

 

Meetings include get-to-know-each-other, business, and presentations. All are Welcome!

 

Monday, January 26th

Pam Goddard, Sr. Mid-Atlantic Program Director, National Parks and Conservation Association

“National Parks, History and the Trump Administration”

Playback: Unavailable

Monday, February 16th

Heather Huyck, NPS (retired) and NCWHS Board member

“Recognizing and Thanking the Rev. Dr. Pauli Murray, Intrepid Pioneer”

Playback: Watch on YouTube Here

Monday, March 16th

Jackie Wolf, Professor Social Medicine Emerita, Ohio University College of Medicine

“Successes in US Public Health”

Monday, April 20th

Nick Sacco, Historian & Curator, US Grant National Historic Site

“Significant in her Own Right: The Life of First Lady Julia Grant”

Monday, May 18th

Sara Evans, Professor Emerita, University of Minnesota

“Living, Writing, and Teaching Women’s History”

Monday, June 15th

Rosie Click, PhD candidate, Georgetown University

“Protecting Clara Barton National Historic Site”

Monday, July 20th

Jenny McBurney, Government Documents Librarian, U. Minnesota

“‘Save Our Signs’ A Project Protecting Our History”

Monday, August 17th

Linda Kerber, Professor Emerita, University of Iowa

“Women and Statelessness”

Monday, September 21st

Caitlyn Jones, Mellon Fellow

“The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pin: Teaching the Long Women’s Rights Movement Through Zine-Making.”

Monday, October 19th

Jennifer E. Tomás, Professor History, Piedmont Valley Community College

“Why Reclaiming Clio: Making American Women’s History, 1900-2000” is so crucial now”

Monday, November 16th

Jess Edberg, Executive Director, Dorothy Molter Museum, Ely MN

“Undaunted 21Wilderness Woman:  Dorothy Molter in the Boundary Waters Canoe area.”

Monday, December 21st

Kathleen Brown, Professor History, University of Pennsylvania

“Gerda Lerner’s Legacy for Women’s History”

 

NCWHS supports place-based histories of American women at historic sites and parks nationwide. We must fully preserve and share this history or we distort our past.