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Although they are a dynamic presence in national political life today, no woman has yet been elected to the American Presidency.
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It has not been for a lack of effort. Over two hundred women have run for the office over the course of American History. This program will discuss some of the challenges they faced – and continue to face – a century and a half after the first, Victoria Woodhull, set her sights on the White House in 1872.
Presented by Pr. Ellen Fitzpatrick, Professor of History at the University of New Hampshire.
A professor and scholar specializing in modern American political and intellectual history, Ellen Fitzpatrick is the author and editor of eight books, including "The Highest Glass Ceiling: Women's Quest for the American Presidency" (Harvard University Press, 2016), the New York Times bestselling, "Letter to Jackie: Condolences from a Grieving Nation" (Ecco, 2010); "History’s Memory: Writing America’s Past, 1880-1980" (Harvard University Press, 2002); "America in Modern Times," co-authored with Alan Brinkley
(McGraw Hill, 1997); "Endless Crusade: Women Social Scientists and Progressive Reform" (Oxford University Press, 1990), an updated edition of Eleanor Flexner's classic study of the women's rights movement, "Century of Struggle" (Harvard University Press, 1996) as well as many articles and reviews.
"Letters to Jackie" became the basis for a 2014 documentary film by Bill Couturié entitled "Letters to Jackie:Remembering President Kennedy" for which Fitzpatrick served as Associate Producer.
"The Highest Glass Ceiling" was selected as a 2016 "Editor's Choice" by the New York Times, and a notable nonfiction book
of 2016, by "the Washington Post." It was also excerpted in "The New Yorker."
Fitzpatrick, who holds a PhD in History from Brandeis University, is Presidential Chair and Professor of History at the University of New Hampshire and has taught previously at Harvard University, M.I.T. andWellesley College. She has appeared as a commentator on PBS’ The News Hour and has been interviewed as an expert on modern American political history by numerous print media outlets.
The recipient of many grants in aid of her research, including support from the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the Spencer Foundation, Rockefeller University and Harvard University, Fitzpatrick has also held fellowships from the Charles Warren Center for the Study of American History at HarvardUniversity (twice), the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.
She is the recipient of the University of New Hampshire's Award for Excellence in Public Service, received the 2017 Lindberg Award for the outstanding teacher-scholar in the College of Liberal Arts and in 2021. the university’s highest teaching award, the Jean Brierley Award for Excellence in Teaching.
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