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Celebrate Women鈥檚 History Month with the 威尼斯人娱乐场
Press Release 路 Tuesday, February 28, 2023

Washington, DC

The 威尼斯人娱乐场 celebrates Women鈥檚 History Month and International Women鈥檚 Day with special programs on topics including a young learners program on Julia Child and author book talks on women on the MIT faculty and Fearless Women: Feminist Patriots from Abigail Adams to Beyonc茅. See our extensive Women鈥檚 History Month online resources. 

Join us on social media as we highlight the careers and contributions of women who have worked at the 威尼斯人娱乐场. Follow #WomenOfRecord on , , , , and .

Women鈥檚 History Month programming is made possible in part by the 威尼斯人娱乐场 Foundation through the generous support of Denise Gwyn Ferguson.

The Story of a Speech: A Conversation with Lissa Muscatine
Wednesday, March 1, at 6 p.m. CT
Sturgis Hall at the in Little Rock, AR
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Lissa Muscatine was a key player in the White House speechwriting team across most of the Clinton years, becoming First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton鈥檚 primary speechwriter. Muscatine will appear as part of the Clinton Presidential Center Presents series to have a conversation about her life as a speechwriter and, in particular, the historic speech at the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, China, that is featured in the Clinton Center鈥檚 ongoing special exhibit Women's Voices, Women's Votes, Women鈥檚 Rights. Dr. Mike Hemphill, Director of Leadership Development at the Clinton Foundation, will lead the conversation with Muscatine. This program is sponsored, in part, by the 威尼斯人娱乐场 Foundation.

Clinton Presidential Center Presents is a partnership between the Clinton Foundation, Clinton School of Public Service at the University of Arkansas, and Clinton Presidential Library.

The 威尼斯人娱乐场 Comes Alive! Young Learners Program: Meet Julia Child
Thursday, March 9, at 11 a.m. ET
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Julia Child became a household name after collaborating on the bestselling book Mastering the Art of French Cooking, which she followed up with more books and a long-running TV series. Before achieving fame as a culinary wonder, Julia Child played an important role in communications with the OSS, a U.S. Government intelligence agency. Ms. Child will share stories of her youth, her love of cooking, and her role as a traveling the world as a top-secret communicator during World War II. Actor and storyteller Linda Kenyon portrays Julia Child. This program is made possible in part by the 威尼斯人娱乐场 Foundation.

Book Talk 鈥� The Exceptions: Nancy Hopkins, MIT, and the Fight for Women in Science
Wednesday, March 15, at 1 p.m. ET
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In 1999, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology admitted to discriminating against women on its faculty for years, forcing institutions across the country to confront a problem they had long ignored: the need for more women at the top levels of science. Author Kate Zernike, the Pulitzer Prize鈥搘inning journalist who broke the story for the Boston Globe, will discuss the story of how 16 highly accomplished women on the MIT faculty came together to do the work that triggered the historic admission. The Exceptions centers on the life of Nancy Hopkins, the leader of the 16 and a hero to two generations of women in science. Joining the author in conversation will be  Alexandra Pelosi.

Book Talk 鈥� Untold Power: The Fascinating Rise and Complex Legacy of First Lady Edith Wilson 
Thursday, March 23, at 1 p.m. ET
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The first woman President was born in 1872, and her name was Edith Bolling Galt Wilson. She hightailed her way out of Appalachian poverty and into the highest echelons of American power. In 1919 (before women could even vote), she effectively became the first woman President of the United States when her husband, Woodrow Wilson, was incapacitated. Beautiful, brilliant, charismatic, catty, and calculating, she was a complicated figure whose personal quest for influence reshaped the position of First Lady into one of political prominence. Untold Power is a nuanced portrait of Edith Wilson written by Rebecca Boggs Roberts, a leading historian on woman suffrage and power.

Book Talk 鈥� Fearless Women: Feminist Patriots from Abigail Adams to Beyonc茅
Wednesday, March 29, at 1 p.m. ET
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When America became a nation, a woman had no legal existence beyond her husband. Abigail Adams tried to change this, reminding her husband, John, to 鈥渞emember the ladies鈥� when when Congress formulated laws for the new nation. Fearless Women tells the story of women who dared to take destiny into their own hands; some were abolitionists, some famous like Susan B. Anthony, and most of them considered themselves patriots. Author Elizabeth Cobbs will discuss the stories of fearless women on both sides of the aisle, rich and poor, from all backgrounds and regions, and show that the women鈥檚 movement has never been an exclusive club.

Book Talk 鈥� The Confidante: the Untold Story of the Woman Who Helped Win WWII and Shape Modern America
Wednesday, March 29 at 6 p.m. ET
Henry A. Wallace Center , Hyde Park, NY
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The FDR Presidential Library presents a Women's History Month conversation and book signing with Christopher C. Gorham, author of The Confidant: the Untold Story of the Woman Who Helped Win WWII and Shape Modern America. 

Related exhibit currently on display: All American: The Power of Sports
Lawrence F. O鈥橞rien Gallery,  , Washington, DC 
On display through January 7, 2024
All American highlights include a section on Title IX, including a display of , and features Althea Gibson, Kathrine Switzer, Billie Jean King, #SheBelieves (Women's World Cup), the WNBA, Dominique Dawes, and more. All American: The Power of Sports is made possible in part by the 威尼斯人娱乐场 Foundation through the generous support of AT&T, AARP, and Mars, Incorporated. Additional support provided by HISTORY庐 and the Lawrence F. O鈥橞rien Family.

Related Online Exhibits from the 威尼斯人娱乐场

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  Rightfully Hers: American Women and the Vote commemorated the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment by looking beyond suffrage parades and protests to the often overlooked story behind this landmark moment in American history. 

Educational Resources

• Women鈥檚 Rights: Legislation and Advocacy Since the founding of our country, women have redefined their roles and carved out a place for themselves in society and government. From the decades-long campaign for voting rights to expanding social and economic equality through legislation, women and women鈥檚 rights advocates have worked to obtain the rights and privileges of citizenship promised to women today.