Burlington County - Mount Laurel - "The Ladies of Trenton: Women's Political and Public Activism in Revolutionary New Jersey."
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Wednesday, June 27 – Burlington County
The New Jersey Studies Academic Alliance and the Alice Paul Institute will welcome Catherine Hudak on Wednesday, June 27, 6:30 pm when she discusses "The Ladies of Trenton: Women's Political and Public Activism in Revolutionary New Jersey."
Using the Ladies of Trenton as a case study, Ms. Hudak will discuss the extent and forms of women's public and political activism in the early national period, and the pivotal roles women played in the formation of the vibrant political culture that emerged in late 18th century America.
The Ladies of Trenton were a group of elite New Jersey women who re-fashioned gender roles for women and entered male-dominated spaces of politics and print culture by organizing a fundraising campaign to assist the Continental Army and a public tribute honoring newly-elected President George Washington.
Catherine Hudak has been an educator at Morris Hills Regional District in Rockaway, N.J. for the past 17 years. In 2001, she earned an undergraduate degree in Special Education from Bloomsburg University, PA. She completed her master's degree in History from William Paterson University in 2007, where she discovered the Ladies of Trenton. In June 2015 her article examining the extent and forms of the Ladies of Trenton's activism was published in the inaugural issue of "New Jersey Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal."
The talk is free and open to the public and will take place at the Alice Paul Institute at Paulsdale, 128 Hooten Road, Mount Laurel, NJ 08054. Please see their website for more information and directions
