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This session of the WHS is sponsored by the American Historical Association.

Long before she was 鈥淣otorious,鈥� RBG was an attorney arguing and winning gender equality cases before the Supreme Court. Dr. Strum contends that RBG鈥檚 greatest contribution came not as a jurist but in persuading the Justices of the 1970s, whom RBG described as needing a grade school-level education about sex discrimination, to rethink stereotypes about the proper roles for men and women and declare sex discrimination to be unconstitutional. Her pathbreaking approach to the law could not be more relevant today.聽

Philippa Strum is the former Wilson Center Director for U.S. Studies, and Emerita Professor at City University of New York. Her books include Louis Dembitz Brandeis 聽(1984), nominated for a Pulitzer Prize; When the Nazis Came to Skokie (1999); and Women in the Barracks: (2002), about RBG鈥檚 most important Supreme Court gender equality opinion. A frequent lecturer at home and abroad, she is also the recipient of a prize for scholarly writing about the Supreme Court, presented by then-Chief Justice William Rehnquist.

The Washington聽History聽Seminar is co-chaired by Eric Arnesen (George Washington University) and Christian Ostermann (Woodrow Wilson Center) and is organized jointly by the American聽Historical聽Association and the Woodrow Wilson Center's聽History聽and Public Policy Program. It meets weekly during the academic year.聽The seminar thanks its anonymous individual donors and institutional partner (the George Washington University聽History聽Department) for their continued support.