WHAT: Brown Bag Lecture Series
HOSTED BY: UNK Department of History
TITLE: “Are Women New to Politics? Nebraska Women as a Case Study”
TOPIC: Women have made great political strides over the last century. Female representation has hit record highs and women now regularly run for the presidency. Is this history new? How long has it taken for women to get to this point, where they are running – and winning – political office? Nebraska women shed light on this history. After winning the right to vote, women sought office but the Unicameral dislodged these early gains. Women rallied later in the century with historic wins to Congress, the governorship and U.S. Senate. Join Linda Van Ingen for a discussion of this fragmented and often forgotten history of Nebraska’s political past. See what’s changed and what has stayed the same over 100 years of women’s political participation in Nebraska.
PRESENTER: Van Ingen is a professor and chair of the UNK Department of History. Her teaching and research areas focus on 20th century U.S. social and political history, including women’s history, civil rights and immigration. She is the author of the book “Gendered Politics: Campaign Strategies of California Women Candidates, 1912-1970.”
Van Ingen lived overseas before her family moved to Iowa, where she finished high school and earned a bachelor’s degree from the University of Iowa. After working for about eight years in nonprofit political organizations, she went back to school to earn a doctorate in history from the University of California, Riverside. She joined the UNK faculty and moved to Kearney in 2001.
TIME: Noon
DATE: Wednesday, Nov. 13
PLACE: Kearney Public Library, 2020 First Ave.
VIDEO: Available on the Kearney Public Library YouTube channel
CONTACT: Linda Van Ingen, history professor, 308.865.8772, vaningenl1@unk.edu
