Explore how girls who found self-understanding in nature became women who changed America.

For the trailblazing women of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, navigating the woods and taking to the streets in peaceful protest were not only techniques to resist assimilation, racism, and sexism, but were joyful pursuits. In her latest book, Wild Girls: How the Outdoors Shaped the Women Who Challenged a Nation, award-winning historian Tiya Miles illuminates how Harriet Tubman’s time outdoors and struggles with illness and disability prepared her to escape enslavement and become the iconic leader of the Underground Railroad we’re all familiar with today. Miles will share stories of the indomitable bond between women and the wild, and why we must ensure equal access to outdoor spaces for young women of every race and class today. 

Reception, Book Signing, and Sales

A reception with book signing will follow this event at 4:00 p.m. CT. Book sales provided courtesy of the University of Minnesota Bookstore.