“Listening to Progressive Women: The Virginia Feminist Oral History Collection” by historian Megan Shockley, Monday, March, 19, 2018, 3-5 p.m., Cabell Library Lecture Hall This event is free and open to the public. We hope you can attend. Please share this email with folks you think would be interested. Thanks. - *A talk “Listening to Progressive Women: The Virginia Feminist Oral History Collection” by author Megan Shockley* - *Event: March, 19, 2018, 3-5 p.m., James Branch Cabell Library, Lecture Hall, 3rd floor. * The Virginia Feminist Oral History Project, available through Special Collections and Archives, documents the stories of women involved in second-wave feminism and related women’s activism in Virginia. The interviews were conducted by Megan Shockley, Ph.D., professor of history at Clemson University as part of research for her new book, *Combating Southern Patriarchy: Virginia Feminists and the Politics of Social Change, *which will be released by Louisiana State University Press in 2018. Shockley’s donation of 24 audio recordings and corresponding transcripts makes it possible for VCU Libraries to preserve and provide access to the voices of second-wave feminists throughout Virginia. In addition to her forthcoming book, Shockley is the author of *Changing History: Virginia Women Through Four Centuries* (with Cynthia Kierner and Jennifer Loux), Richmond: Library of Virginia Press, 2013; *The Captain’s Widow of Sandwich: Self-Invention and the Life of Hannah Rebecca Burgess, 1834-1917*, New York: New York University Press, 2010; and *‘We, Too, Are Americans’: African American Women in Detroit and Richmond, 1940-1954*, Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2004. More information here: https://www.library.vcu.edu/about/news/2018/milestones-vcu-libraries-celebrates-3-millionth-volume-in-2018.html --- Ray Bonis Senior Research Associate Special Collections and Archives James Branch Cabell Library VCU Libraries 901 Park Ave. VCU Box 842033 Richmond, VA 23284-2033 ______________________________________ To subscribe, change options, or unsubscribe please see the instructions at http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-hist.html This list is made possible by a grant from the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS).