First Lady Caroline Harrison and the ways that women participated in politics in the 1880s and 1890s, featuring speaker Jennifer Capps, Vice President of Curatorship & Exhibition at the Benjamin Harrison Presidential Site

About the Speaker:

Jennifer is vice president of Curatorship & Exhibition at the Benjamin Harrison Presidential Site, where she often leads tours and presentations on the Harrison family’s historical legacy as well as assisting many authors by providing information on Benjamin and Caroline Harrison. She has appeared on local media affiliates (television and print), Hoosier History Live (radio), and C-SPAN. Recently, she contributed to the DK book Benjamin Harrison The 23rd President: Harrison’s Life and Legacy as told through his Historic House and wrote the chapter on Caroline Harrison in the soon-to-be-published book Ohio’s First Ladies: From the Midwest to the White House. Capps attended IU East and IUPUI majoring in history, and began working at the Benjamin Harrison Presidential Site as a work-study student in August of 1990. She was then hired as assistant curator and has been curator since 1993.

Through the years, she has assisted many authors providing information on Benjamin and Caroline Harrison.

Date: November 17, 2026 | Time: 7 p.m. 
Location: Museum Experience Center | Price: Free