NSU LIBRARIES RECEIVES GRANT
NSU LIBRARIES RECEIVES GRANT FOR WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE DISCUSSION PROJECT
Let’s Talk About It: Women’s Suffrage programming will begin March 30
TAHLEQUAH — The NSU Libraries are one of 25 libraries nationwide selected to participate in Let’s Talk About It (LTAI): Women’s Suffrage, a grant designed to spark conversations about American history and culture through an examination of the women’s suffrage movement.
The competitive award comes with a $1,000 stipend to support programming costs and ten copies of five books covering the women’s suffrage theme. According to ALA, more than 100 libraries applied for the opportunity.
To open the program, Dr. Cheryl Van Den Handel, Associate Professor of Political Science at Northeastern State University, will help bring Women Making History: The 19th Amendment to life with insight and discussion. For more information on programming, visit https://library.nsuok.edu/LTAI-2022.
As part of the grant, the NSU Libraries will receive the following books:
- The Woman’s Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Voteby Elaine Weiss
- Women Making History: The 19th Amendment Book, essays compiled by the National Park Service
- Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for Allby Martha S. Jones
- Ida B. the Queen: The Extraordinary Life and Legacy of Ida B. Wellsby Michelle Duster
- The Once and Future Witchesby Alix E. Harrow
Celebrating its 40th anniversary in 2022, Let’s Talk About It is a reading and discussion program that involves groups of people reading a series of books selected by national project scholars and discussing them in the context of an overarching theme. The format for a Let’s Talk About It program involves a series of programs in which a discussion group meets with a local humanities scholar to discuss one of the five books in the theme.
LTAI: Women’s Suffrage is a humanities discussion project from the American Library Association (ALA) and is supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). To explore resources from past LTAI themes, visit the project website.