Frances Ellen Watkins Harper's Civil War and Reconstruction with Eric Gardner
Join us for virtually to hear Eric Gardner discuss his most recent book, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper's Civil War and Reconstruction (September 2025), which offers a powerful reexamination of one of the most important yet understudied Black women of the nineteenth-century. A writer, activist, and lecturer, Harper fought tirelessly for abolition, civil rights, women’s suffrage, and temperance.