American historian and popular lecturer Tom Henry returns to Oneida Public Library for a two-part presentation on “The Road to the 19th Amendment,” the 1920 constitutional landmark that gave women the right to vote in all elections, Saturday mornings at 11:00 a.m., March 25 and April 1.
In Part 1, March 25Henry will trace the Woman’s Rights Movement and its evolution into a national push for the vote for women, first at individual state levels and then on the national scene. In Part 2, April 1,he will chronicle how at the turn of the 19th into the 20th century the women’s cause was taken up by the Progressives, men of both parties out for radical reform in government, business and society. If time allows, Henry will follow up with the consequences of the 19th Amendment on both politics and society.
Henry, who is a retired social studies teacher at Liverpool and currently a very popular instructor in American history at Oasis Institute of Syracuse, has often lectured at the OPL, most recently last October on contested presidential elections. He has also talked at the OPL about five “forgotten” presidents, the U.S. at the outbreak of World War II, the role of Upstate New York volunteers in the Battle of Gettysburg and the Union’s prisoner of war camp in Elmira.
At Oasis, Henry regularly conducts lecture series on many facets of U.S. history, including the Civil War, presidential histories, the Supreme Court and the Constitution.
Henry’s upcoming lectures, the first in a series of programs in the OPL’s 2017 Centennial Celebration of Women’s Suffrage in N.Y.S., are free and open to all. For more information, stop by the Oneida Library, 220 Broad St., or call 315-363-3050.