2026 Women’s History Month Lecture with Dr. Laura F. Edwards
2026 Women’s History Month Lecture with Dr. Laura F. Edwards
March 22, 2026 from 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm
Virtual, $5
Make plans to attend our annual Women’s History Month Lecture on Sunday, March 22 at 2 p.m.! This special lecture will be given virtually by Dr. Laura F. Edwards on her 2022 history Only the Clothes on Her Back: Clothing and the Hidden History of Power in the Nineteenth-Century United States. Registrants will be sent a Zoom link prior to the lecture.
Laura F. Edwards is a legal historian whose research focuses on the nineteenth-century United States. She holds a B.A. in American Culture from Northwestern University, a Ph.D. in History from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and taught at Duke University for twenty years before coming to Princeton. She is the author of four other books: Gendered Strife and Confusion: The Political Culture of Reconstruction (1997), Scarlet Doesn’t Live Here Anymore: Southern Women in the Civil War Era (2001); The People and Their Peace: Legal Culture and the Transformation of Inequality in the Post-Revolutionary South (2009), and A Legal History of the Civil War and Reconstruction: A Nation of Rights (2015).