Princess Diana's Wedding
Monday July 29, 2013
On July 29, 1981, Diana Spencer married Prince Charles in what many saw as a fairy-tale wedding. Diana was the first British citizen 300 years to marry the first ... Read More
Lindy Boggs 1916 - 2013
Sunday July 28, 2013
Lindy Boggs, the first woman elected to Congress from Louisiana, has died. She was elected after her husband, Thomas Hale Boggs, Sr., a member of the House of Representatives, was ... Read More
Helen Thomas 1920 - 2013
Saturday July 20, 2013
Controversial reporter Helen Thomas has died at her home in Washington D.C., on June 20, 2013. She was the first woman to become a member of the White House ... Read More
Women Building Bryn Mawr
Saturday July 20, 2013
M. Carey Thomas is considered a pioneer in women's education, for her commitment and work in building Bryn Mawr as an institution of excellence in learning, as well as for ... Read More
July 1848: Seneca Falls, New York
Friday July 19, 2013
July 19-20 is the anniversary of the first Women's Rights Convention, held in Seneca Falls, New York, an event which marks the beginning of the active women's rights movement in ... Read More
Florence Kelley
Wednesday July 17, 2013
She was a single mother who raised her children while working for more rights for women and children who labored in factories. Florence Kelley is best known as the ... Read More
Lady Godiva's Ride - Myth or History?
Tuesday July 16, 2013
Lady Godiva was a real historical person -- wife of the Anglo-Saxon earl of Mercia in the 11th century, she's recorded as living through the Norman invasion of 1066. ... Read More
Selma Lagerlöf (1858-1940)
Monday July 15, 2013
Selma Lagerlöf was a Swedish writer whose inventive stories won her the Nobel Prize for Literature -- the first time it was awarded to a woman. I admit to ... Read More
Happy Bastille Day!
Sunday July 14, 2013
Read about Olympe de Gouges: she thought that the French Revolution's call for the rights of man should include women's rights -- and ended up losing her head.
• Olympe ... Read More
Molly Pitcher: the Heroine of Monmouth
Saturday July 13, 2013
A lasting image of the American Revolution was that of Molly Pitcher, an army wife who was delivering water to the artillerymen when her husband collapsed. So she did ... Read More
The Art of Propaganda: Leni Riefenstahl Books and Movies
Friday July 12, 2013
Leni Riefenstahl was a film-maker and actress. Her most successful films -- in popularity and in artistic execution -- were documentaries used by the Nazis under Hitler as propaganda for ... Read More
Creating History: The Virginia Dare Example
Thursday July 11, 2013
History is, often, a creative act: we don't have all the evidence and so historians interpret what evidence there is to come up with a plausible conclusion. Virginia Dare's ... Read More
Mary McLeod Bethune's Birthday
Wednesday July 10, 2013
Mary McLeod Bethune is known for her work providing educational opportunities for African Americans, and she also served as a government official during the New Deal and as founder and ... Read More
Born Free? Still Needed to Move to Canada.
Wednesday July 10, 2013
Mary Ann Shadd Cary's life typifies one reaction of many African Americans to the Fugitive Slave Act and the Dred Scott decision: move to Canada. Though born to parents ... Read More
Words of Wisdom from Women Presidents and Prime Ministers
Saturday July 6, 2013
Women have been presidents and prime ministers of many nations, beginning in the mid-20th century. Here are some collections of quotes from some of the women who've held this ... Read More
We hold these truths ...
Thursday July 4, 2013
We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are ... Read More
Summer Reading?
Wednesday July 3, 2013
Try these for some summer reading ideas:
I enjoy her historical fiction: Maeve
Binchy
I'll be reading a few more of her mysteries: Rita
Mae Brown Quotes
Social analysis and critique: Books
by ... Read More
Amelia Earhart a No-Show
Tuesday July 2, 2013
Amelia Earhart 1929Getty Images
On July 2, 1937, Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan disappeared, not showing up for their expected landing on Howland Island in the Pacific. They were near the ... Read More