Ida Henrietta Hyde on Getting a Degree
2025-09-30
Educator, biologist, public health and women’s rights advocate Ida HenriettaRead More →
Laura Bassi on Struggle
2025-03-29
Laura Maria Caterina Bassi Veratti (1711 – 1778), an ItalianRead More →
Ida C. Craddock on Comstockery
2024-09-26
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Nannie Helen Burroughs on Voting
2024-02-28
Nannie Helen Burroughs (May 2, 1879 – May 20, 1961)Read More →
Ann Plato on Benevolence
2023-12-27
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Eliza Grier on Struggle
2022-03-21
Born a slave and freed by the 13th Amendment, Dr. Eliza Ann Grier, at first, set out to become a teacher. Then she set her sights higher.Read More →
Sarah Josepha Hale on Beginning a Novel
2021-11-25
Widow, Sarah Josepha Hale (1788-1877) wrote and worked to support her family. As editor of first the American Lady’s Book and then Godey’s Lady Book she was arbitrator of American fashion and letters for over forty years.Read More →
Lucretia Mott on Truth
2019-04-18
The Quaker minister, Lucretia Mott, lived from 1793 to 1880.Read More →