New York Times columnist Gail Collins will speak at UVM on Thursday, Feb. 17 at 5 p.m. in the Ira Allen Chapel. Her talk, titled "When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American Women from 1960 to the Present,” is based on her latest book of the same title. The lecture is free and open to the public.

“Until now, the second wave women's movement hasn't had its big ambitious history -- the equivalent to Taylor Branch's multivolume narrative of the civil rights movement,” Slate wrote about the book. “There have been brilliant memoirs and revealing biographies and scholarly books that took slices of the movement and put them under a magnifying glass, but nothing as sweeping and accessible as this."

Collins joined The Times as an editorial board member in 1995 and served as the paper's editorial page editor - the first woman ever to hold the post. She is the author of three other books, including America's Women: 400 Years of Dolls, Drudges, Helpmates and Heroines, The Millennium Book, which she co-authored with her husband, CBS News producer Dan Collins; and Scorpion Tongues: Gossip, Celebrity and American Politics.

Collins currently co-teaches an opinion writing course in Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism.

Collins' visit to UVM is being sponsored by James Marsh Visiting-Professor-at-Large Madeline M. Kunin, former governor of Vermont and former U.S. ambassador to Switzerland.