Jone's Women's History Blog April 2005 Archive

Learn more about Anne Bradstreet, America's first published poet whose writings allow insight into the experience of the early Puritans in New England. She arrived in America in 1630 ... Read More

Called Bloody Mary for the executions she approved in trying to restore Roman Catholicism to England, Mary I was the eldest living child of King Henry VIII and was named ... Read More

Who is the greatest American? On June 5, the Discovery Channel will debut its TV show allowing us, the audience, to weigh in. Women nominated run from Madonna ... Read More

I've picked a few of the growing number of books telling the story of women and girls in baseball: the stories of Jackie Mitchell and Alta Weiss (did you know ... Read More

An American journalist whose opinion columns were first syndicated in 1976, Ellen Goodman interweaves issues of politics and personal life. I've selected some of my favorite tidbits from Ellen ... Read More

Andrea Dworkin, a radical feminist whose early activism including working against the Vietnam War, became a strong voice for the position that pornography is a tool by which men control, ... Read More

The 1939 incident when Marian Anderson was denied use of the DAR's Constitution Hall can be seen as a beginning to the American Civil Rights movement. First Lady Eleanor ... Read More

The funeral of Pope John Paul II is predicted to be the largest funeral in history. The Pope's remains are to be buried in an ancient crypt under St. ... Read More

According to news reports today, Jane Fonda expresses regret for the incident in which she posed with a North Vietnamese anti-aircraft gun, calling it a "betrayal" of American soldiers. ... Read More

On April 2, 1917, Jeannette Rankin, from Montana, became the first woman to take a seat in the US Congress. Four days later, she voted against American entry into ... Read More