While working on a lecture related to women’s suffrage in Maryland, I tripped across some records about a Bel Air police officer falling in the line of duty in 1920. The memory of this tragedy had been lost as time moved on, so I handed the information over to the Bel Air Police Department. A…
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Women’s Right to Vote: A discussion Hosted by the Wilmington Library & Wilmington University
A collaborative event between Wilmington University and the Wilmington Public Library celebrating the 95th anniversary of the passage of the 19th amendement to the Constitution guaranteeing the right of women to vote in the United States will be presented August 4, 2015. Mike Dixon, an adjunct history professor at the University will lead the discussion. …
Dorchester County Public Library Has Strong Local and Family History Research Collection
The Delmarva region has many helpful research repositories for studying the past. Many are found in public libraries, and in that group there is the M. Virginia Webb Memorial Maryland Room at the Dorchester County Public Library (DCPL). I have used this collection periodically over the years, and last week I needed to examine newspapers…
Dr. Tierney Published Highly Acclaimed Women’s Studies Encyclopedia
Since 2015 marks the 95th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment to the Constitution, I have been examining the topic of extending the right to vote to women. While investigating the regional perspective, I recalled the work of Helen Tierney, professor emeritus in the Department of History at the University of Wisconsin (UW). …