As we begin the centennial year celebration of women’s right to vote, Kimberly Hamlin will share the story of Helen Hamilton Gardener and the “Secret History of Women’s Suffrage in America.”

Hamlin, a professor at Miami University in Oxford, researches, writes, and teaches about women and gender in the U.S. Her book, “Free Thinker: Helen Hamilton Gardener’s Radical Pursuit of Equality and the Vote,” is the story of the woman who steered the 19th Amendment through Congress. In 1920, Woodrow Wilson nominated Gardener to the U. S. Civil Service Commission, making her the highest-ranking woman in federal government and a national symbol of what it meant for women to be full citizens.

The program is at the Delhi Park Lodge, at 7 p.m. on February 10. It is free and open to the public.