They were pioneers who didn’t know there was a glass ceiling as that term had not yet...
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In 1918, the Marine Corps began investigating how the integration of women would take place. By Kenna...
How Ella Fitzgerald’s cassette campaign fueled a late-career renaissance. It’s the stuff of legends: an urban legend...
Eight decades after missing aviator Amelia Earhart was declared dead, technologies still don’t quite track every airplane...
If they washed out, they had to pay their own way home. If they were injured or...
A 19th-century volume contained a mystery for two historians who combined their knowledge to tell the story...
The first known woman to join a firefighting brigade may not have done so by choice. Introduction...
This curious machine was meant to answer the problem of the moment: how to provide sufficient training...
Their relationships were profoundly instrumental to their vision of social justice that changed America. Anyone who has...
The woman Thoreau once called the “youngest person in Concord”. Henry David Thoreau isn’t usually known for flattering comments...
In what ways do we associate movement—the ability to go anywhere and be anyone—with freedom? How do...
Despite the restrictions women faced, her art collections demonstrate important renaissance themes. Introduction In European history classes,...
How a 17th-century nun wrote poetry, dramas, and comedies that took on the inequities and double standards...
A virtual tour of Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. Originally published by Lapham’s Quarterly,...
Thousands of women volunteered as nurses during the Civil War. On April 14, 1861, Fort Sumter fell—the...
Nursing may be the oldest known profession, as some nurses were paid for their services from the...
Sister Rosetta Tharpe was buried in an unmarked grave, but now she’s a YouTube sensation. More than...
Monopoly’s roots begin with a woman—a progressive named Elizabeth Magie. For generations, the story of Monopoly’s Depression-era...
Chicago’s “Eleanor Clubs” were designed to give young, working women affordable and congenial places to live. By...
An analysis forces us to ask what we mean by political agency. By Laura Spinney Eleanor of...
How the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment is being remembered and how, for decades, it was not....
Nasty wenches, deputy husbands, and other female survivors of Early America. “Nir nir nir,” that is,“me me...
What did medieval Christians believe about women’s nature and social roles? How did they express these beliefs...
Anyone with even a cursory knowledge of Christianity has heard the term ‘Church Fathers’ but far less...
Thanks to Ida Tarbell, we’re not to afraid to expose the shenanigans of the super-rich. Over the...
In the first year of the Civil War, Union General Benjamin Butler used the term “contraband of...
She was a great observer of everyday life. Virginia Woolf, that great lover of language, would surely...
Early space age culture in America highlighted women’s reproductive capacity as a primary, crucial contribution that women...
Beyond the headlines and iconic reputation she built across party lines, she had to fight just as...
Historical written records were almost exclusively written by men, but archaeology and the women scholars in the...