26Mar2026
15 Minutes of Infamy: Ill-behaved Women and the Making of History
March 26, 2026
5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
MWWC
Join us for this celebration of Women’s History Month with a talk by Dr. Elizabeth DeWolfe! Refreshments start at 4:30 p.m. If “well-behaved women seldom make history,” as historian Laurel Thatcher Ulrich famously quipped, ill-behaved women certainly dominated the historical headlines. Such women were branded as passive, irrational, or depraved, their lives reduced to colorful [...]
MWWC Director Jennifer Tuttle was recently interviewed by Dr. Pamela Toler of the blog "History in the Margins" in observation of Women's History Month. In Talking About Women’s History: Three Questions and an Answer with Jennifer Tuttle," Jennifer touts the research resources available in the MWWC and offers some thoughts on the significance of our founding [...]