2020 Annual Meeting

THE PENNSYLVANIA HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION APPRECIATES EVERYONE WHO JOINED OUR ANNUAL MEETING VIRTUALLY IN OCTOBER 2020!

Codifying the right to vote for women in all American states and territories, the Nineteenth Amendment was officially ratified on August 18, 1920, a century ago. The Pennsylvania Historical Association marked the centennial anniversary at our 2020 Annual Meeting.

We thank all those who joined us virtually this Autumn for a full day of webinars that recognized the ongoing struggle from suffrage towards securing political rights and equality for all.

Marion Roydhouse, professor emerita of Jefferson University, delivered the keynote address Doubling the Electorate: Women, Men, and Political Power following our membership meeting and awards ceremony.

A robust day of panel discussions included Social Reform in Antebellum Pennsylvania and Suffrage in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries to histories of Race, Gender and Partisan Politics. Janet Moore Lindman, professor and chair of the History Department at Rowan University and program chair of this year’s conference, moderated a panel on Women in the Archives. An authors’ roundtable also showcased the Special Issue on Women and Gender in Pennsylvania History and a new book in the Pennsylvania History Series, The Health of the Commonwealth: A Brief History of Medicine, Public Health, and Disease in Pennsylvania. We also hosted a virtual exhibition hall for booksellers during the weeks before and after the meeting.