Caldwell Professor Wants To Teach You About ‘Radical Women Pathbreakers’

CALDWELL, NJ — As a historian, you tend to run into a lot of “revolutionary women.” And on Thursday, Oct. 12, a Caldwell University history professor will tell you about the “radicals” and “pathbreakers” who have made the country a better place.

Marie Mullaney will host a free public lecture titled “Revolutionary Women: Girlfriends I’ve Made in 40 Years as a Historian” at 7 p.m. at Caldwell University’s Alumni Theater. During the event, Mullaney will discuss the research and publishing she has done on a wide number of “achieving women” in the past.

Some of the women she will discuss include:

• Mabel Smith Douglass, the founder of the New Jersey College for Women
• Katharine Ryan Gibbs, the founder of the well-known Katherine Gibbs secretarial schools
• French anarchist Louise Michel
• Karl Marx's daughter Eleanor La Pasionaria of Spanish Civil War fame
• New Jersey communitarian Rebecca Buffum Spring

The lecture is free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be served. For more information, contact phikappaphi@caldwell.edu or Francie Del Vecchio at 973-618-3416.

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