Join us for a free presentation on July 10th at 12pm for our Lunch & Learn: Including Unmarried Women in the Homestead Act with special guest, Law Professor Hannah Haksgaard. She will talk about the congressional debates leading up to the passage of the Homestead Act of 1862. Focusing on why Congress gave unmarried women the right to homestead. This presentation will discuss women's rights as well as the democratic process during the early Homesteading days. This event is free to the public and is served with a light lunch in the Vermillion Public Library’s Kozak Room.

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Professor Haksgaard currently teaches Property, Family Law, Modern Real Estate Transactions, and Reproduction & the Law at USD. She previously taught Employment Discrimination. At the law school, Professor Haksgaard also advises the South Dakota Law Review, the Family Law and Children's Advocacy, and the American Constitution Society.

This event is brought to you by the South Dakota Humanities Council.

Cited: The Crisman Sisters, l.-r.: Harriet, Elizabeth, Lucie and Ruth, Near Gosheen Settlement on Lieben Creek, Custer County, Nebraska, 1886. Solomon D. Butcher, Courtesy Library of Congress.