Remembering the Ladies

Thursday, November 4, 2021
Note:  This is the first Thursday
Waterford Public Library
6:15 p.m.           Refreshments
6:45 p.m.           Business Meeting
7:00 p.m.          Program

The November program will feature Jeffrey O’Leary, Ph.D., an Associate Professor of History in the Humanities Department at Mitchell College in New London, CT, speaking about highlights from his course “remember the ladies”: Women in U.S. History.  After earning graduate degrees from the University of Pittsburgh and Kent State University, Jeffrey arrived at Mitchell College in 2014.  Other history classes he teaches at Mitchell include The Making of Modern America: U.S. History Since 1893; Rebellions, Revolutions, and Rights: World History Since 1900; and Marble, Monuments, and Memory: Culture and Commemoration in Society.  Part of his research interests include memory studies and the role of British imperial mothers of the late nineteenth century and their involvement with oversight of depictions of Irishness at world’s fairs in the Atlantic world.  He has published peer-reviewed articles on topics that include reformers of the Progressive Era, the Nat Turner uprising, the political maneuverings of the Know Nothing Party, and the display of the Irish at the St. Louis World’s Fair in 1904.  Jeffrey is a regular contributor of book reviews for U.S. and Irish history for Choice, a publishing unit of the Association of College and Research Libraries, and other outlets.  His book manuscript, It Takes a Village: The Display of Irishness at World’s Fairs and Expositions, 1893-1992, is under review by a university press.