BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//events.la.psu.edu//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20201101T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20200308T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:15253-5e08cbef2feab2ecea688f430dc310fc@events.la.psu.edu DTSTAMP:20260427T202257Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250421T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250421T180000 SUMMARY:“Tangled Journeys”: An Interview with Penn State Professor Emerita Lori Ginzberg DESCRIPTION:\nThe Richards Civil War Era Center invites you to join us f or a conversation with Lori Ginzberg\, professor emerita\, and Richards Center Predoctoral Fellows Hope McCaffrey and Adam McNeil\, on Monday\, April 21\, 4:00 p.m. at the Palmer Museum of Art\, 115 Event Space. (Ple ase note the Palmer Museum of Art is closed on Mondays\; therefore\, you will not be able to tour the museum or displays.)\n\nThe conversation w ill be followed by a reception in honor of Ginzberg (Palmer Museum\, 115 Event Space) where the Bookstore will have copies of her book\, Tangled Journeys: One Family’s Story and the Making of American History\, avail able for sale.\n\nPlease register by emailing RichardsCenter@psu.edu by Tuesday\, April 15.\n\nLori Ginzberg\, retired from Penn State in 2022 a fter teaching in the Departments of History and Women’s\, Gender\, and S exuality Studies since 1987. She has long been interested in the ways th at ideologies about gender obscure the material and ideological realitie s of class\, how women of different groups express political identities\ , and how commonsense notions of American life shape\, contain\, and con trol radical ideas. Among her previous books are Elizabeth Cady Stanton: An American Life (Farrar\, Straus\, Giroux 2009) and Untidy Origins: A Story of Woman’s Rights in Antebellum New York (UNC Press 2005). In 2023 and 2024 she was a visiting professor of history at Haverford College.\ n\nGinzberg’s latest book\, Tangled Journeys: One Family’s Story and the Making of American History (UNC Press 2024)\, relates an ambitious  his torical narrative about the ancestors and descendants of the Sanders fam ily—children of a white Charlestonian and a woman he enslaved—while expl icitly challenging readers to confront what was unseen\, unheard\, and u ndocumented in the archives\, thereby inviting them into the process of American history making itself.\n\nGinzberg has spoken and written widel y about the centennial commemoration of the passage of the Nineteenth Am endment to the U.S. Constitution. A few examples include “‘All Men and W omen are Created Equal:’ The Life of Elizabeth Cady Stanton” (National P ark Service website) A National Constitution Center conversation on the life and legacy of Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Ginzberg also appeared in Pen n State’s “HumIn focus” film\, Who Counts: The Complexities of Democracy in America. More recently she has had the opportunity to speak about Ta ngled Journeys\, including at an author event at the Free Library of Phi ladelphia and on several podcasts.\n\nHope McCaffrey is a doctoral candi date in the Department of History at Northwestern University\, where she studies the history of gender\, race\, and politics in the mid-nineteen th-century United States.\n\nAdam Xavier McNeil is a doctoral candidate in early African American women’s history at Rutgers University\, where he focuses on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Black women's history a nd slavery.\n\nFor more details: https://events.la.psu.edu/event/tangled -journeys-2/ X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

The Richards Ci vil War Era Center invites you to join us for a conversation with Lori Ginzberg, professor emerita, and Richards Center Predoct oral Fellows Hope McCaffrey and Adam McNeil, on Monday, April 21, 4:00 p.m. at the Palmer Museum of Art, 115 E vent Space. (Please note the Palmer Museum of Art is closed on Mondays; therefore, you will not be able to tour the museum or displays.)

T he conversation will be followed by a reception in honor of Ginzberg (Pa lmer Museum, 115 Event Space) where the Bookstore will have copies of he r book, Tangled Journeys: One Family’s Story and the Making of Ameri can History, available for sale.

Please register by e mailing RichardsCenter@psu.edu by Tuesday, April 15.

Lori Ginzberg, retired from Penn State in 2022 after teaching in the Departments of History and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies since 1987. She has long been interested in the ways that ideologies about gender obscure the material and ideolo gical realities of class, how women of different groups express politica l identities, and how commonsense notions of American life shape, contai n, and control radical ideas. Among her previous books are Elizabeth Cady Stanton: An American Life (Farrar, Straus, Giroux 2009) and < em>Untidy Origins: A Story of Woman’s Rights in Antebellum New York  (UNC Press 2005). In 2023 and 2024 she was a visiting professor of hist ory at Haverford College.

Ginzberg’s latest book, Tangled Jour neys: One Family’s Story and the Making of American History (UNC Pr ess 2024), relates an ambitious  historical narrative about the ancestor s and descendants of the Sanders family—children of a white Charlestonia n and a woman he enslaved—while explicitly challenging readers to confro nt what was unseen, unheard, and undocumented in the archives, thereby i nviting them into the process of American history making itself.

G inzberg has spoken and written widely about the centennial commemoration of the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. A few examples include “‘All Men and Women are Created Equal:’ The Life of Elizabeth Cady Stanton” (National Park Service website) A National Cons titution Center conversation on the life and legacy of Elizabeth Cady St anton. Ginzberg also appeared in Penn State’s “HumIn focus” film, Wh o Counts: The Complexities of Democracy in America. More recently s he has had the opportunity to speak about Tangled Journeys, inc luding at an author event at the Free Library of Philadelphia and on sev eral podcasts.

Hope McCaffrey is a doctoral candidate in the Depar tment of History at Northwestern University, where she studies the histo ry of gender, race, and politics in the mid-nineteenth-century United St ates.

Adam Xavier McNeil is a doctoral candidate in early African American women’s history at Rutgers University, where he focuses on eigh teenth- and nineteenth-century Black women's history and slavery.

For more details: https://events.la.psu.edu/event/tangled-journeys-2/

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