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In commemoration of the centennial of the 19th Amendment, this conference will explore the history of the suffrage movement and how efforts to broaden voting rights have evolved over time. Sessions will explore the origins and development of suffrage efforts as well as contemporary voting rights issues.

Join University of Virginia professor of politics Jennifer Lawless, University of Massachusetts Boston professor of political science Erin O'Brien, Harvard University professor of government and sociology Theda Skocpol, University of South Carolina professor emerita of history Marjorie Spruill, and Suffolk University professor of government and moderator Rachael Cobb as they explore contemporary issues related to the 19th Amendment.

In commemoration of the centennial of the 19th Amendment, this conference will explore the history of the suffrage movement and how efforts to broaden voting rights have evolved over time. Sessions will explore the origins and development of suffrage efforts as well as contemporary voting rights issues.

Join UCLA professor emeritus of history Ellen DuBois, Johns Hopkins professor of history Martha S. Jones, University of Connecticut professor of history Manisha Sinha, author Brenda Wineapple, and Carnegie Mellon professor of history and moderator Lisa Tetrault as they explore the history and origins of the movement.

Molly Ball, national political correspondent for TIME and author of the new book Pelosi, and Susan Page, USA Today's Washington bureau chief and author of the forthcoming Madam Speaker, discuss Nancy Pelosi's career and leadership as Speaker of the House of Representatives with Nancy Cordes, chief congressional correspondent for CBS News.

This was the first session in the two-day Kennedy Library conference Expanding Democracy: The 19th Amendment and Voting Rights Today commemorating the centennial of the 19th Amendment.

Barbara Carvalho, director of the Marist Poll; Henry Fernandez, co-founder of the African American Research Collaborative; Jill Lepore, Harvard professor of history; and Anthony Salvanto, CBS News Director of Elections and Surveys, discuss the history of and contemporary trends in political polling with longtime former ABC reporter and anchor Charlie Gibson.

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The New Yorker contributor Barry Blitt; cartoonist Pia Guerra; and Washington Post editorial cartoonist Ann Telnaes explore the art of political cartooning with Scott Simon, host of NPR's Weekend Edition Saturday.

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Gretchen Sorin, director of the Cooperstown Graduate Program of the State University of New York and author of Driving While Black: African-American Travel and the Road to Civil Rights; director Ric Burns and producer and editor Emir Lewis of the forthcoming PBS documentary Driving While Black based on her research, discuss how the automobile transformed African American life with Spencer Crew, Acting Director of the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture.

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Robert Trogdon, Kent State University professor of English and editor of the Library of America's forthcoming "Ernest Hemingway: The Sun Also Rises & Other Writings 1918-1926," discusses this new edition of writings from Hemingway's earliest years in Paris with Kennedy Library Hemingway Scholar in Residence Hilary Justice.

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Award-winning journalist Larry Tye discusses his new book Demagogue: The Life and Long Shadow of Senator Joe McCarthy with Pulitzer Prize-winning former Boston Globe columnist Eileen McNamara.

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Senator Sherrod Brown discusses his new book, Desk 88: Eight Progressive Senators Who Changed America, which explores the careers of senators who have also sat at Desk 88 on the Senate floor, including Hugo Black, George McGovern, and Robert F. Kennedy. Senator Jeanne Shaheen moderates.

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Fredrik Logevall, Harvard University professor of history and international relations and Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, discusses his forthcoming book JFK: Coming of Age in the American Century, 1917-1956 with George Packer, staff writer at The Atlantic.

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