Jone's Women's History Blog

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Find some choice quotations from Zelda Fitzgerald, an artist, dancer, and writer who was better known in her own time as the wife of F. Scott Fitzgerald. It was only ... Read More

In my part of the country, it's bicycling season again, and I thought readers might enjoy some visual historical perspective on women and bicycling. Image: Woman on Bicycle - Advertisement for ... Read More

Abigail Adams Courtesy Library of Congress The "John Adams" series has brought to life an image not only of the second president, but his wife, Abigail Adams. We know a lot ... Read More

April 22 has been celebrated as Earth Day since 1970. Women have played key roles in the environmental movement both before and after the first Earth Day. One ... Read More

We know of only a few women writers in the ancient world, when education was limited to only a few people and most of them men. This list includes most ... Read More

A 12-foot colossus (statue) of Queen Tiye of Egypt was recently uncovered. The figure, made of quartzite, was attached to the leg of a 50-foot statue of her husband, ... Read More

Writer Gertrude Stein had a strong impact on American literature in the early 20th century, especially around World War I. She lived most of her adult life in Paris. Less ... Read More

In the tenth century (901-1000 CE), a few women achieved power but almost entirely through their fathers, husbands, sons and grandsons. Some even served as regents for their sons and ... Read More

The poet, Sappho of Lesbos, is known today through a few fragments of her poetry that survive in quotes by others, and through her image in art. Explore some of ... Read More

Emily Dickinson, whose odd and inventive poems helped to initiate modern poetry, is an enigma, a mystery, a paradox. Only ten of her poems were published in her lifetime. ... Read More

Michelle Bachelet, the President of Chile, pondered in remarks reported today that women leaders are still judged more harshly than men are. She pointed out how men's tears are ... Read More

Babe Didrikson Zaharias, 1932 Olympics Getty Images Babe Didrikson was an outstanding athlete from her early years. She excelled in basketball, track and field, and golf. In track and field, she won ... Read More

Egyptologist Joyce Tyldesley, a lecturer at the University of Manchester in England and museum fellow, who has published books on Hatshepsut, Nefertiti, women in ancient Egypt, and other topics in ... Read More