Dr. Nancy Cott, Jonathan Trumbull Professor of American History, Director, Pforzheimer Foundation and Director, Schlesinger Library, Harvard University will speak on campus this Thursday.
“Since writing Public Vows, on the history of marriage as a public institution in the U.S., Professor Cott has participated in writing historians’ amici briefs on the same-sex marriage question in several states, including challenges to the federal Defense of Marriage Act, and she testified as an expert witness in the federal case Perry v. Schwarzenegger against Proposition 8 in California.”
Thursday, September 19, 2013 @ 7:00pm
Alumni Center
86 Wentworth Street
College of Charleston
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