This Sunday, at Rokeby Museum, Middlebury College history professor Amy Morsman, and Vermont historian Jane Williamson will present slide lectures exploring some of the struggles both within and outside the decades-long effort to gain the woman's right to vote.

Amy will examine points of convergence and moments of discord within the suffrage movement, and how identity shaped decisions about the way to win the vote. Most recently, Amy curated Votes… for Women? - a recent Middlebury College Museum of Art exhibition exploring the activism behind the Suffrage Movement.

Jane will discuss the early women's rights movement, which had its roots in abolition and re-emerged after the Civil War in the fight for suffrage. Jane is Rokeby Museum Director Emerita, and curator of a number of Rokeby Museum exhibits exploring the abolitionist movement.

The event will take place outdoors under a tent, with safe seating for 50. In the case of rain, the event will limited to 25, and video recording will be available the next day. Reservations can be made by calling 802-877-3406, or emailing admin@rokeby.org. Walk-ins welcome too. $5 admission, or free with price of museum admissions.

Funding for this project came from a Making of Nations Interpretive Theme Grant from the Champlain Valley National Heritage Partnership. The event is a Votes for Women event, part of a bi-state consortium of historic sites in the Champlain Valley.