Education

Nannie Helen Burroughs on Voting

In: 20th Century Women, Activists, Education, Women's Rights

Tagged: African American History, Female Education, National Training School

Nannie Helen Burroughs (May 2, 1879 – May 20, 1961)Read More →

Harriet Martineau on American Women

In: 19th Century Women, Abolition, Activists, Authors, Education, Journalists, Women's Rights

Tagged: British writer, democracy, Novelists, Sociologist

Meet the woman who sold more novels than Charles Dickens.Read More →

Mary Putnam Jacobi on Self-Confidence

In: 19th Century Women, Education, Medicine

When I was in high school, girls who had theirRead More →

Ida Craddock on the Belly Dance

In: 19th Century Women, Activists, Authors, Education, Motherhood, Spiritualism, Women's Rights

Tagged: Anthony Comstock, belly dancing, Comstock Laws, First Amendment rights, obsenity, sex education

Ida Celenire Craddock (1857-1902) was born into a world whereRead More →

Laura Towne on Repairing Books

In: 19th Century Women, Abolition, Civil War, Education

Tagged: Slavery, Teaching, Women's Medical College of Pennsylvania

Laura Matilda Towne was a trained homeopathic physician. However, she was also an abolitionist. When calls went out for volunteers to help the freed slaves in the Sea Islands of South Carolina, Towne volunteered to go.Read More →

Catherine Beecher on Exercise

In: 19th Century Women, Daily Life, Education, Motherhood

Tagged: Education of Girls, Exercise for Women, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Henry Ward Beecher, Household Tips

“Woman’s great mission is to train immature, weak, and ignorantRead More →

Lucretia Mott on Truth

In: Abolition, Education, Women's Rights

Tagged: Female Education, Female Medical College, Seneca Falls, Swarthmore College, Truth, Woman's Rights

The Quaker minister, Lucretia Mott, lived from 1793 to 1880.Read More →