Liberty 1915: One Cartoon, Many Stories
Hy Mayer, The Awakening, published in Puck February 20, 1915. Image courtesy Library of Congress.
Recognized for her incisive observation that “well behaved women seldom make history,” Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Dr. Laurel Thatcher Ulrich will discuss the image of Liberty and its use in the quest for women's rights, including in the Puck centerfold of 1915 that portrays a dynamic Lady Liberty striding across the United States from west to east. Dr. Ulrich is the 300th Anniversary University Professor at Harvard University, Emerita and the author of Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History, The Age of Homespun and A Midwife’s Tale.
The Museum will open at 5:30 p.m. with the lecture at 6 p.m. Book signing and reception to follow.
This event is sponsored by Chase, PECO, Qurate Retail Group, the Arcadia Foundation and the Chester County Fund for Women and Girls.
A former MacArthur Fellow and a past president of the American Historical Association, Dr. Ulrich's book, A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard Based on Her Diary, 1785–1812 (1990), won the Pulitzer Prize. Her most recent book is A House Full of Females: Plural Marriage and Women's Rights in Early Mormonism, 1835-1870 (2017).