Author: Grace Pettygrove

On the icy, though jubilant Friday at the end of fall finals week, I meandered with mild curiosity to the EMU Walnut Room to see what my friends described as “a bunch of Nazis.”

Jeannette Rankin, the first United States congresswoman, was a Republican from Montana. She was also pacifist and the only congressperson to vote against World War II, which alone should remind us how much party lines have shifted. Rankin was a maverick before it was cool to be mavericky.