Join our book club! In conjunction with our #NJWomenMakeHistory lecture series celebrating historic New Jersey women in this centennial year of American women’s right to vote, four authors will follow their lectures with a book group discussion. 

Meet the biographers who have profiled four of these groundbreaking women from photographer Dorothea Lange and Hetty Green to Millicent Fenwick and the mysterious Mary Rogers.

Books are available for purchase in the Museum gift shop and at our online store. 

All of these discussions will be held online and are free to attend, thanks to a generous grant from the New Jersey Council for the Humanities. Reservations are required for participation. Visit https://bit.ly/NJWomenMakeHistory to reserve a spot. A Zoom link will be shared about an hour before each discussion with everyone who signed up.

Join the club!

• Linda Gordon, Dorothea Lange: A Life Beyond Limits  Sunday, September 20 at 4 pm.
• Janet Wallach, The Richest Woman in America: Hetty Green in the Gilded Age, Sunday, October 11 at 4 pm.
• Amy Schapiro, Millicent Fenwick: Her Way, Saturday, October 24 at 4 pm
• Amy Gilman Srebnick, The Mysterious Death of Mary Rogers, Saturday, November 14 at 4 pm

The book club debuts on Sunday, Sept. 20, at 4 pm, with a discussion with author Linda Gordon about her book, Dorothea Lange: A Life Beyond Limits (1895-1965), on the famous American documentary photographer and photojournalist, best known for her Depression-era work for the Farm Security Administration. Lange’s work was recently featured at the Museum of Modern Art. Born Dorothea Margaretta Nutzhorn at 1041 Bloomfield Street, Hoboken, NJ, Dorothea apprenticed herself to several NY photographers before taking the assignment for the Resettlement Administration and Farm Security Administration that made her famous. Lange’s images brought the plight of the poor and forgotten—particularly sharecroppers, displaced farm families, and migrant workers—to public attention. Distributed free to newspapers across the country, Lange’s poignant images became icons of the era. 

Linda Gordon is professor of history and University Professor of the Humanities at New York University. Her early books focused on the historical roots of social policy issues, particularly as they concern gender and family issues. In her later books, she explored other genres of history. Her recent books include: The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction (1999) and the biography of great photographer Dorothea Lange (2009), both of which won the Bancroft Prize for best book in US history; Impounded (2008); Feminism Unfinished (2015); The Second Coming of the KKK (2017). Her most recent book is another biography of a photographer, Inge Morath: An Illustrated Biography (2018).

The lecture series tickets are available at https://bit.ly/NJWomenMakeHistory.

The full lecture series schedule: (all events begin at 4 pm) 

• Sunday 9/13 – Dorothea Lange: A Life Beyond Limits, by NYU Professor Linda Gordon 
• Sunday, 10/4* – The Richest Woman in the World, Hetty Green in the Gilded Age, by Janet Wallach 
• Sunday, 10/18 – Millicent Fenwick, Her Way, by Amy Schapiro 
• Saturday, 11/7* – The Mysterious Death of Mary Rogers, by Amy Gilman Srebnick 
• Sunday, 11/15 – Martha & Caroline Stevens, by Eileen Lynch 
• Sunday, 11/22 – Anne Ryan: Her Art and Life, by Nancy Nikkal
• Sunday, 12/6 – NJ Women Poets Make History, with live readings by 6 NJ poets 
• Sunday, 12/13 – An Interview with Maria Pepe

(Most lectures are both online and with limited in-person seating, except Oct. 4 and Nov. 7, which are online only*)

In addition to a generous Action Grant of $16,500 from the NJ Council for the Humanities to fund this lecture series, the Hoboken Historical Museum received a $5,000 COVID-19 grant from the New Jersey Council for the Humanities with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the federal CARES Act. Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this [publication, program, exhibition, film, etc.] do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities or the New Jersey Council for the Humanities.