On WestSouthwest, a new book on women voting in the elections that followed winning the right to vote. And the 160th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's visit to Kalamazoo will be marked this weekend.
Western Michigan University Professor Kevin Corder and Notre Dame Professor Christina Wolbrecht are the co-authors of Counting Women's Ballots: Female Voters from Suffrage through the New Deal. They examine how granting women the right to vote influenced elections in the 1920's and 30's.
160 years ago a former Congressman from Illinois came to Kalamazoo to campaign for Republican Presidential candidate John Fremont. Abraham Lincoln would go on to become the nation's 16th President and guided the United States through the Civil War. But he never returned to Michigan. The anniversary of Lincoln's Kalamazoo appearance is being marked this weekend. The chairman of the steering committee for the Kalamazoo Abraham Lincoln Project, Cameron Brown, tells us why it's an event worth remembering.
