A lecture by Catherine Allgor, professor of history at the University of California, Riverside, about the role of women in the American Revolution will air on C-SPAN3 at 8:57 p.m. on Nov. 6, and 10:57 a.m. on Nov. 7.

A C-SPAN crew visited Allgor’s U.S. Women, Gender, and Sexuality class on Oct. 12 to film the lecture, which addressed issues of coverture — the centuries-old legal doctrine that merged the identities of women with their husbands, leaving them unable to enter into contracts, own property or sign legal documents — and how colonial and early national women exercised a small but increasing amount of political and economic freedom.

Research about two American first ladies by Allgor is featured in a special collector’s edition of U.S. News & World Report. Allgor contributed significantly to entries about Louisa Adams and Dolley Madison in the newly released special edition, America’s First Ladies.

Allgor on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiWTreeol7E