Jone's Women's History Blog

Why was the Fourteenth Amendment controversial in women's rights circles? Because, for the first time, the proposed Amendment added the word "male" into the US Constitution. But women's rights ... Read More

I knew Iva Toguri as a quiet, kind, pleasant woman who sometimes waited on me in an Asian gift shop on Chicago's Belmont Avenue when I lived in that city. ... Read More

If George Washington was the Father of His Country, perhaps there's some reason for crediting his wife, Martha Washington, as the Mother. Her presence at winter camps during the ... Read More

Melissa Snell, About.com's Guide to Medieval History, reviews Medieval Women by Eileen Power. Eileen Power, researching medieval history in the first half of the 1900s, was ahead of her ... Read More

Annie Besant's life journey took her from minister's wife, to outspoken atheist and birth control advocate, and then to advocate and student of Theosophy....read more

Italian writer Oriana Fallaci died in Florence, Italy, after a long battle against cancer. She had lived in New York but returned to Italy recently. Fallaci was known for her ... Read More

In a speech at Meredith College in Raleigh, North Carolina, on September 14, the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 2003, Iranian activist and former judge Shirin Ebadi, said ... Read More

Ann Richards, former governor of Texas and feisty figure in Texas and national politics, has died, losing her battle with esophagal cancer. Governor from 1991-1995, she came to national prominence ... Read More

She's one of the most influential women in cyberspace today -- heading her own company, writing on emerging technologies, hosting forums with major decision-makers, and chairing both ICANN (which is ... Read More

At age 87, Rebecca Ann Felton became the first woman to take a seat in the US Senate. But her appointment was only symbolic, and she only served for two ... Read More

This month, Katie Couric premiered as the first woman to host (solo) a national network evening news program. But the first woman (co-)anchor of an evening news program was ... Read More

Many women were victims of the terrorist attacks on the Pentagon and World Trade Center Twin Towers on September 11, 2001. Women were heroes of 9/11, too. Many women were ... Read More

Born September 6, Jane Addams was a settlement house reformer, and also a pacifist and women's rights advocate. She practiced a radical kind of "neighborliness" in living among the ... Read More