Join Kane County Democratic Women on Saturday, May 31, 2025, from 10:00-11:30 am, at the Gail Borden Library in Elgin, IL for our very first docuseries. We are pleased to announce that Dr. Rosemary Feurer, history professor at the Northern Illinois University in DeKalb is our guest speaker. This docuseries is free and open to the public and continues in our mission to engage, educate and empower women.
Dr. Feurer’s research and teaching interests focus on labor movements and conflict in the U.S. during the late 19th and 20th centuries and how these movements affected the U.S. spatially, socially, and economically. Her latest project is currently titled The Illinois Mine Wars, 1860-1930 and tells the story of the violent conflicts in Illinois that helped to establish Illinois as one of the strongest unionized states in the nation. At the same time, she is working on a biography of Mother Jones, the famous labor activist and agitator of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era. Dr. Feurer is also the author of two books and numerous articles on the U.S. labor movement.
