Showing posts with label women's history. Show all posts
Showing posts with label women's history. Show all posts
Jul 4, 2017

A woman’s name on the Declaration of Independence

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(Washington Post) This Fourth of July, look closely at one of those printed copies of the Declaration of Independence. See it? The woman...
Jun 20, 2014

The Civil War in Dry Fork, WV: The Historic Ride of Jane Snyder

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(Rural Librarian) There is a lot of history in Harman, West Virginia. Indians migrated through here and hunted here. Early settlers came ...
Apr 3, 2013

Carrie S. Burnham

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  Have women citizens the right of suffrage under the Constitution of the United States and of this particular State of Pennsylvania?   W...
Mar 26, 2013

Nancy Pelosi

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(Wikipedia) ... Pelosi was born in Baltimore, Maryland. The youngest of six children, she was involved with politics from an early age. Her...
Mar 12, 2013

The Girls of the Manhattan Project

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  (The Daily Beast) ... In The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II, Denise Kiernan recrea...
Jan 28, 2013

Dollar Princesses: The American heiresses who inspired Downton Abbey

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  (thedailybeast) ... Yet these American girls paid a price for their strawberry leaves and coronets. Most had grown up in modern homes...
Dec 26, 2012

E.D.E.N. Southworth

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(librarycompany.org) Christened Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte at her dying father's request, the most popular woman novelist of her era u...
Dec 15, 2012

The short, glorious history of the Society for the Prevention of Useless Giving

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(Slate) This year marks the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Society for the Prevention of Useless Giving, a lost player in the his...
Dec 11, 2012

Annie Jump Cannon

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(Wikipedia) - Annie Jump Cannon (December 11, 1863 – April 13, 1941) was an American astronomer whose cataloging work was instrumental in t...
Oct 25, 2012

Katharine Byron

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(Wikipedia)  Katharine Edgar Byron (October 25, 1903 – December 28, 1976), a democrat, was a U.S. Congresswoman who represented the 6t...
Sep 6, 2012

Louisa Ann Swain

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(Wikipedia) - Louisa Ann Swain (1801, Norfolk, Virginia – January 25, 1880, Lutherville, Maryland) was the first woman to vote in a gene...
Aug 13, 2012

Opha Mae Johnson

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(Wikipedia) Opha Mae Johnson (February 13, 1900 – January 1976) was the first woman to enlist in the United States Marine Corps. She join...
Jul 19, 2012

When the Men Went to War

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(NYTimes) When she learned that her husband, Lucius, had enlisted in the Union Army, Alice Chapin became distraught. She sobbed uncontr...
Jun 2, 2012

Credible Amelia Earhart radio signals were ignored as bogus

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(Discovery) Dozens of previously dismissed radio signals were actually credible transmissions from Amelia Earhart, according to a new s...
May 23, 2012

The ‘Siren of the Shenandoah’

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(NYTimes) ... Was Belle Boyd a heroine or a clever charlatan? A thrill-seeking opportunist or a brave Confederate patriot? The Civil W...
May 2, 2012

Good Housekeeping

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(LoC) Good Housekeeping made its debut on May 2, 1885. One of several popular women's magazines founded in the 1880s and 1890s, Good...
Feb 11, 2012

Emma Goldman

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(LoC) Emma Goldman, American anarchist and feminist, compelling advocate of free speech, the eight-hour work day , and birth control, was ar...
Feb 8, 2012

'World's last' WWI veteran Florence Green dies aged 110

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(BBC) A woman thought to be the world's last known surviving service member of World War I has died aged 110. Florence Green, from King...

Piece of Martha Washington's dress on sale in Pa.

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PHILADELPHIA (AP) A piece of one of Martha Washington's dresses is for sale. The Raab Collection, a Philadelphia historic documents deal...
Nov 23, 2011

Richmond’s Medical Miracle

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(NYTimes) During the opening months of the Civil War, the streets of Richmond, Va., filled with bloodied bodies. The thousands of Confederat...