A warrior for every social justice movement of her day, Abzug stood on the front lines protesting...
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After years of struggle, on Aug. 18, 1920, Tennessee became the final state needed to ratify the...
As the last Ptolemaic heir of Alexander the Great, she remained committed to his policy of cultural...
Geologist and cartographer Tharp changed scientific thinking about what lay at the bottom of the ocean. Introduction...
Prohibited from attending the white GIs, the women felt betrayed by the country they fought to serve....
Women were key to the Democratic Party’s transformation in the 1920s and 1930s away from its socially...
The Republican Party had established itself as the party of reform in the 19th century, not the...
Women spies of the American Revolution. Introduction Throughout the Revolutionary War, there are stories of heroism; those...
Two wives of the American Revolution – one a patriot, one a spy. By Victoria Cooney Lucy...
Examining some myths about women during the Revolutionary War and trying to find the truth. We all...
Visual access to real women’s bodies was strictly policed in the Renaissance, particularly in Italy. The relationship...
They called their adventure the Women’s Overland Himalayan Expedition. Antonia Deacock, Anne Davies and Eve Sims were three...
Women have always been artists, even famed artists. So why were many forgotten? Recovering Forgotten Masters When...
Women’s historic struggles to vote continue to resonate as the country debates who should vote and how....
By the 1930s, vibrators were just another household electric appliance that could soothe your pains at the...
The nineteenth century is a decisive time in the development of medicine and the medical profession in...
How the work of African American clubwomen deepens our understanding of the Great Migration and the Progressive...
The most famous event of Pocahontas’ life, her rescue of Captain John Smith, did not happen the...
Women’s roles present in the emerging United States before, during, and after the American Revolution. Introduction “Republican...
Historical material about the bodily and emotional experience of the period after birth has been relatively neglected....
How three artists, from three different eras, depicted motherhood. Introduction The first official Mother’s Day holiday was...
Many women in ancient Greece led interesting lives and performed heroic acts and who remain lesser known...
Hallie Quinn Brown and other “homespun heroines”. Hallie Quinn Brown knew the power of black women and...
She was a famous activist in her day, arguably the most famous in the world. By Tom...
Roughly fifty years after a handful of suffragists conceived the idea, it became a hard-fought reality. Introduction...
Rationed foods were categorized as either needing red or blue points. Introduction The events on December 7,...
Corroborating Prudence’s wartime adventures is difficult. Introduction Prudence Patterson was born in 1743 (either in Wales or...
In their last days, the suffragist pioneers looked back and left us their story in letters. “It...
Maggie Lena Walker was one of the most important Black businesswomen in the nation, and today too...
Mary Edwards Walker defied convention in just about everything she did. Mary Edwards Walker was uncompromising in...