By Mike Greife,
August 29, 2016
WARRENSBURG, MO – Carol Faulkner, Ph.D., professor of history at the Maxwell School
of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University, will present Lucretia Mott
at Seneca Falls: Religion, Race, and Women's Rights at 7 p.m.Thursday, Sept. 15, in
Union 238.
Faulkner’s presentation is presented as part of UCM’s observance of Constitution Week.
The sponsors for the event are the Department of History, Anthropology, Africana Studies,
and Social Studies; the Department of Government, International Studies, and Languages;
and the American Democracy Project at UCM.
A historian of 19th century America, Faulkner is a specialist on and has published
widely about women's history and the struggle for women's rights. She has authored
two books, Lucretia Mott's Heresy: Abolition and Women's Rights in 19th-Century America
(2011), and Women's Radical Reconstruction: The Freedmen's Aid Movement (2003). She
has also co-edited Lucretia Mott Speaks: The Essential Speeches and Sermons, which
will be released by the University of Illinois Press in 2017.
The event is free and open to the public.
