Name: Norah O'Donnell - We the Women
Start: 2026-03-12T19:00:00-05:00
Location: Blanche M. Touhill Performing Arts Center

Norah O'Donnell - We the Women: The Hidden Heroes Who Shaped America
Presented by Left Bank Books & Left Bank Books Foundation
In conversation with bestselling author Kate Andersen Brower, co-author of We the Women: The Hidden Heroes Who Shaped America
Join us for a very special evening with Norah O'Donnell. As a multiple Emmy Award winning journalist who has interviewed the most notable figures in living history, O'Donnell turns her gaze upon the unsung American women from the last 250 years of our country's history. This vivid portrait examines the women who changed the course of history in their fight for freedom and helped shape a more perfect union. Join us for this very special evening.
"By skillfully weaving together individual stories of groundbreaking women, this terrific book reveals the central, though often hidden, role that women have played at every stage of our country's history." --Doris Kearns Goodwin
"A fascinating book with the colorful tales of more than thirty of these risk takers, visionaries, and pioneers." --Walter Isaacson
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About the Speakers
Norah O'Donnell is a multiple Emmy Award-winning journalist with nearly three decades of experience covering the biggest stories in the world and conducting impactful, news-making interviews. She is CBS News's senior Correspondent, focused on big interviews and projects for the network, and spent more than five years as the anchor and managing editor of CBS Evening News the oldest and most revered evening news broadcast in America. O'Donnell anchors CBS News election specials and is a 60 Minutes contributing correspondent. She is married to Geoff Tracy, known as Chef Geoff, and is the mother of three children.
Kate Andersen Brower is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Residence and First Women, also a New York Times bestseller, as well as Team Of Five, First In Line, and the children’s books Exploring the White House and The Hill. The Residence is being made into a television series produced by Shonda Rhimes for Netflix. Her book Elizabeth Taylor is the first authorized biography of the icon. She covered the Obama administration for Bloomberg News. She is also a former CBS News staffer and Fox News producer. Kate has written for the New York Times, Vanity Fair, and the Washington Post. She lives outside of Washington, D.C., with her husband, their three young children, and their wheaten terrier.

About We the Women: The Hidden Heroes Who Shaped America
A vivid portrait of the unsung American women from 1776 to today who changed the course of history in their fight for freedom and helped shape a more perfect union
Over a decades-long, distinguished career, award-winning journalist Norah O'Donnell has made it her mission to shed light on untold women's stories. Now, in honor of America's 250th birthday, O'Donnell focuses that passion on sharing the stories of American heroines who helped change the course of history.
We the Women presents a new and extraordinary retelling of American history through the eyes of women, introducing us to inspiring patriots who demanded that the country live up to the promises made 250 years ago in the Declaration of Independence: that "all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among those are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." The pressing question from women since the signing of the document has been: Why don't those unalienable rights apply to us?
Through extensive research and interviews, as well as old photos and historic documents, O'Donnell curates a compelling portrait of these fierce fighters for freedom. From Mary Katharine Goddard, who printed the first signed Declaration of Independence, to the Forten family women, considered the "Black Founders" of Philadelphia who were active in the abolition and suffrage movements, to the first women who served in the Armed Forces even before they had the right to vote, O'Donnell brings these extraordinary women together for the first time, and in doing so, writes the American story anew.