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Join the Rockbridge Historical Society, Rockbridge250, and local history lovers for its continuing series of REVOLUTIONARY FILMS & BOOKS, 1776-2026.

On Tuesday, April 14 (6 PM, Lexington Library), a free screening of IRON JAWED ANGELS, starring Hillary Swank as Alice Paul, the pioneering suffragette who helped lead a series of protests and hunger strikes in order to drive President Woodrow Wilson and Congress to eventually pass the 19th Amendment extending to women the right to vote. Click HERE for movie trailer (PG-13, 115 mins): https://youtu.be/UGyB3tV9kU0?is=o0-9Ixpyshett8_e

On Wednesday, April 22 (6 PM, Lexington Library), return to revolutionaries of an earlier era, to discuss the best-selling book by popular journalist Cokie Roberts, FOUNDING MOTHERS: THE WOMEN WHO RAISED AMERICA. Roberts' engagingly written sampler surveys some of the more familiar and influential First Ladies of the Founding Era, while also crediting the more diverse and generally underappreciated efforts of a range of "ordinary" American women whose service to the Revolutionary cause (on the active warfront, as well as the home front) was vital to establishing a new nation.

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