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Last updated Sunday, April 8, 2012 - 7:51am

* Weber Reads the Founders and Their Documents continues at 12:30 p.m. Tuesday with "Universal Declaration of Human Rights," featuring WSU political science professor Nancy Haanstad. The free event will be held in the Stewart Library's Hetzel-Hoellein Room, Weber State University, 3848 Harrison Blvd., Ogden.

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Last updated Sunday, April 1, 2012 - 8:14am

* Brigham City Library continues its "Rule of Law" reading series at 7 p.m. Thursday with a discussion of "America's First Woman Lawyer: The Biography of Myra Bradwell" by Jane M. Friedman. Bradwell applied to practice law in 1869 in her home state of Illinois and was denied. Instead she became a legal journalist, publishing and editing the influential Chicago Legal News. Friedman writes that Bradwell's achievements have been overlooked because her disagreements with feminist Susan B. Anthony led Anthony to exclude Bradwell from her definitive "History of Woman Suffrage." Using her journal as a forum, Bradwell successfully agitated for judicial reform and women's rights, particularly the right of married women to enter the professions.

Weber State University history professor Kathryn MacKay leads the free discussion at the library, 26 E. Forest St., Brigham City.

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Last updated Sunday, March 25, 2012 - 7:54am

* Webers Reads The Founders and Their Documents continues with a readers theater event by Weber State University's Department of Performing Arts at 12:30 p.m. Tuesday in the Hetzel-Hoellein Room of the Stewart Library, 3848 Harrison Blvd, WSU, Ogden. This is a free event.

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Weber Reads topic is U.S. Constitution

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Last updated Thursday, February 16, 2012 - 2:19pm

OGDEN — Weber State on will host “Weber Reads: The Godless Constitution,” a talk by Susan Matt, WSU history professor.

The free talk will be at 12:30 p.m. Tuesday in the Hetzel-Hoellein Room, Stewart Library.

For information, call 801-626-7613 or visit www.weber.edu/weberreads.

Weber State is at 3848 Harrison Blvd.

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Last updated Sunday, February 5, 2012 - 8:29am

* Weber Reads the Founders and Their Documents continues at 12:30 p.m. Tuesday with "Slavery and the Constitution," a lecture presented by Adrienne Gillespie, coordinator for Center for Diversity & Unity at Weber State University. The event is free in the Hetzel-Hoellein Room of the Stewart Library, WSU, 3848 Harrison Blvd., Ogden.

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Founding Fathers patriots or pirates?

Amy Nicholson Standard-Examiner

Last updated Sunday, January 8, 2012 - 8:35am

Thoughts of studying the Founding Fathers might conjure up images of stuffy men in powdered wigs drafting scholarly documents rather than rogue pirates sporting eye patches and engaging in sword fights.

But Lynnda Wangsgard, director of the Weber County Library System, saw a connection between the roots of democracy and the pirate code -- which was a more democratic system than most might suppose.

"Many of the stereotypes are not true. The way (pirates) ran things is probably a big surprise to most," Wangsgard said.

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