Award-winning author to present Bicentennial Lecture

Kathryn Kish Sklar, professor of history and co-director of the Center for the Historical Study of Women and Gender at State University of New York at Binghamton, will discuss “Ohio, The Heartland of Progressive Reform” at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday (5/7) in Sullivant Hall, 1813 N. High St. The event is part of the “Ohio and the World” Bicentennial Distinguished Lecture Series.

Sklar specializes in America’s Antebellum and Progressive eras. The award-winning author has written “U.S. History as Women’s History: New Feminist Essays” and “Harriet Beecher Stowe: Uncle Tom’s Cabin, or Life Among the Lowly.” Sklar has also served as president of the Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era and has been elected a member of the Society of American Historians.

The lecture also will be presented at 7:30 p.m. Thursday (5/8) at Sinclair Community College in Dayton.

The Bicentennial lecture series features scholars and experts who will discuss different themes related to Ohio’s continuing development. The lectures take place in all regions of Ohio, including Newark, Cincinnati, Toledo, Dayton, Cleveland and Athens.

WHAT: Kathryn Kish Sklar, professor of history and co-director of the Center for the Historical Study of Women and Gender at State University of New York at Binghamton, will discuss “Ohio, The Heartland of Progressive Reform.”

WHEN: 7:30 p.m. Wednesday (5/7).

WHERE: Sullivant Hall, 1813 N. High St.

WHY: To celebrate Ohio’s Bicentennial by featuring history scholars who will discuss the state’s past and continuing development.