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Activist Deja Gaston speaking to a crowd of protesters in front of the Salt Lake City & County Building. Photo credit: Lissete Landaverde

A message of love

Lissete Landaverde January 26, 2022

In honor of Martin Luther King Week at Weber State University, the Office of Diversity hosted a virtual showing and panel discussion of the film "Beloved Community Project" on Jan. 19.According to the...

Laurel Thatcher Ulrich discussed the history of womens suffrage in a lecture for the Beyond Suffrage series.

A broader look at women’s right to vote over the centuries

Lissete Landaverde September 21, 2020

Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and history professor at Harvard University, gave her presentation on the first women to vote in the United States on Sept. 3 through Zoom, followed...

Professor Steven Hahn of NYU (Weber State University)

Reconstructing Reconstruction-era history

Alexa Nielson October 30, 2018

Pulitzer Prize winner in History and Bancroft Prize winner in American History Professor Steven Hahn delivered the 20th Lampros Lecture at WSU, in what was an opportunity to hear someone who knows...

Protesters gather against sterilization in 1971. (Source: Southern Studies Institute / Wikimedia Commons)

When America Sterilized Women of Color

Rosa Arambula October 16, 2016

Forced sterilization is a part of America's history that often goes untold, but one doesn’t have to go too far back to find examples of it. Forced sterilization is the act of taking away someone's...

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