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15 Minutes of Infamy: Ill-behaved Women and the Making of History

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 [...]

Tuttle women’s history interview

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 [...]