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Lecture at Denison on Women's Education in the U.S.

  • Burton Morgan Lecture Hall, Denison University 150 Ridge Rd Granville, OH 43023 (map)

Denison University is presenting a lecture of interest to our GHS members: "Thirsting for Knowledge: Women's Education in the Early Republic" by Prof. Margaret A. Nash of the University of California, Riverside.

Dr. Margaret A. Nash

Dr. Margaret A. Nash

Dr. Nash is author of Women’s Education in the United States, 1780-1840 (Palgrave, Macmillan, 2005). Her research focuses on the history of education in the United States. Nash is interested in the social contexts for and meanings of education, the question of who gets educated and why, and the relationships between education and citizenship, and between education and identity.

The talk will be held in the Burton Morgan Lecture Hall and is free and open to the public. For more information, please click here.

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