Author of the book the revolution of 28 al smith, american progressivism and the coming of the new deal. His Progressive Coalition paved the way for franklin roosevelt. Good evening, everyone. Im really delighted to be able to see all of you here tonight and welcome you all here to our talk for this evening. On behalf of the History Department here, welcome, to our evenings talk. Were able to hold this talk thanks to the generous funding of the history fund which is supporting this event. And let me jump straight to introducing our speaker for the evening. Our speaker for this evening is dr. Robert chiles. Hes a graduate of town send university where he studied music and found the true faith and began a ph. D. In history which he completed at the university of maryland in 2012. And the talk that hes going to be giving this evening is the result of that ph. D. Dissertation, i do believe, yes. He has in the course of this particular research, the research for this project, hes received a
Speak about a year ago. At the time, she said that she was doing research on what happened after women got the vote. And i thought that sounds like a really interesting program. Its clear from your response that you all do too. Give a warm welcome to robin muncy. Thanks for being here. [ applause ] thank you so much. For that introduction and the invitation to come back. That didnt go too badly. And thank you to everybody at the Smithsonian Associates who made this possible. People who worked on publicity and taken care of the logistics. Okay. Let me make sure i got this. Good. So the 19th amendment of course the womans suffrage amendment to the u. S. Constitution. Finally made it through congress in june of 1919. And it was ratified by three quarters of the states in august of 1920. After that, no state could deny the vote on the basis of sex. Tonight our job is to explore some of the meanings of the 19th amendment immediately in the aftermath of its passage. Before we drill down on t
Speak about a year ago. At the time, she said that she was doing research on what happened after women got the vote. And i thought that sounds like a really interesting program. Its clear from your response that you all do too. Give a warm welcome to robin muncy. Thanks for being here. [ applause ] thank you so much. For that introduction and the invitation to come back. That didnt go too badly. And thank you to everybody at the Smithsonian Associates who made this possible. People who worked on publicity and taken care of the logistics. Okay. Let me make sure i got this. Good. So the 19th amendment of course the womans suffrage amendment to the u. S. Constitution. Finally made it through congress in june of 1919. And it was ratified by three quarters of the states in august of 1920. After that, no state could deny the vote on the basis of sex. Tonight our job is to explore some of the meanings of the 19th amendment immediately in the aftermath of its passage. Before we drill down on t
Speak about a year ago. At the time, she said that she was doing research on what happened after women got the vote. And i thought that sounds like a really interesting program. Its clear from your response that you all do too. Give a warm welcome to robin muncy. Thanks for being here. [ applause ] thank you so much. For that introduction and the invitation to come back. That didnt go too badly. And thank you to everybody at the Smithsonian Associates who made this possible. People who worked on publicity and taken care of the logistics. Okay. Let me make sure i got this. Good. So the 19th amendment of course the womans suffrage amendment to the u. S. Constitution. Finally made it through congress in june of 1919. And it was ratified by three quarters of the states in august of 1920. After that, no state could deny the vote on the basis of sex. Tonight our job is to explore some of the meanings of the 19th amendment immediately in the aftermath of its passage. Before we drill down on t
Speak about a year ago. At the time, she said that she was doing research on what happened after women got the vote. And i thought that sounds like a really interesting program. Its clear from your response that you all do too. Give a warm welcome to robin muncy. Thanks for being here. [ applause ] thank you so much. For that introduction and the invitation to come back. That didnt go too badly. And thank you to everybody at the Smithsonian Associates who made this possible. People who worked on publicity and taken care of the logistics. Okay. Let me make sure i got this. Good. So the 19th amendment of course the womans suffrage amendment to the u. S. Constitution. Finally made it through congress in june of 1919. And it was ratified by three quarters of the states in august of 1920. After that, no state could deny the vote on the basis of sex. Tonight our job is to explore some of the meanings of the 19th amendment immediately in the aftermath of its passage. Before we drill down on t