Talk and Book Signing by Dr. Faye E. Dudden to be Held at Park

Date: August 5, 2011
Contact: Lee Werst, 315.568.5302

Seneca Falls, NY - Women's Rights National Historical Park is pleased to invite the public to a talk and book signing by Dr. Faye E. Dudden. This event will be held at the Women's Rights National Historical Park visitor center, 136 Fall Street in Seneca Falls, beginning at 2 p.m. on Saturday, August 13.

Dudden is a Professor of History at Colgate University. She is the author of several books, including Fighting Chance: The Struggle Over Woman Suffrage and Black Suffrage in Reconstruction America, Serving Women: Household Service in Nineteenth-Century America and Women in the American Theatre: Actresses and Audiences, 1790 - 1870, which won the George Freedley Memorial Prize.

The talk will be presented in the visitor center auditorium with a question and answer session afterward. Seating is limited, so please come early.

Immediately following the talk a book signing will take place in the visitor center lobby featuring Fighting Chance: The Struggle Over Woman Suffrage and Black Suffrage in Reconstruction America, which can be purchased in the visitor center's bookstore. The talk and book signing will be hosted by Eastern National in cooperation with the National Park Service. Entrance to the Women's Rights National Historical Park visitor center is free of charge. For more information, please contact the Park at 315-568-0024 or visit http://www.nps.gov/wori.

Women's Rights National Historical Park exists to commemorate and preserve the story of the First Women's Rights Convention and historical structures associated with it in Seneca Falls and Waterloo, New York. All public tours and programs are free and open to the public.