Women In History
We have written about women inventors before but there are always new ones whose stories…
Women have been at the forefront of many social reform movements during the history of…
Anthropologists study human relationships, the norms and values of societies, languages, human economic behavior, the…
The U.S. Congress has spent much of 2021 working on a bill to fund improvements…
With the Circulating Collectible Coin Redesign Act of 2020, the U.S. Congress directed the Secretary…
By the time this column is published, the delayed 2020 Summer Olympics should have been…
Did you know that a woman was the youngest artist to ever get a commission…
Music and the arts have suffered tremendously during the current pandemic. Yet they are so…
In 2021, Deb Haaland, of the Laguna Pueblo in New Mexico, became the first Native…
Nuclear physicist Chien-Shiung Wu is featured on a 2021 postage stamp. Martha Washington was the…
Janet Yellen became the first female Secretary of the Treasury upon her confirmation in January…
The roots of a Black History Month celebration were planted in the 1920s and in…
All of us certainly miss the many cultural institutions that are not operating in their…
During September 2020, two significant announcements occurred in the business world. Citigroup announced that Jane…
To much of the American public physics is a mystery, but not to the women…
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues, governors are the focus of much attention across the U.S.…
August 26 is known as “Equality Day.” That is because on August 26, 1920, the…
The United States Supreme Court took the unprecedented step of holding virtual hearings during 2020…
Some of the economic issues that are resulting from the pandemic of 2020 evoke images…
As the world confronts the coronavirus, we wanted to tell you the stories of women…
We learned recently about the woman whose heroic action laid the groundwork for Rosa Parks…
Recent news has brought to our attention women who are continuing to be first in…
It is rewarding to acknowledge that women paved the way for television as we know…
Sometimes we’ll read a book or hear a story and think: “This ought to be…
Women participate in every area of society including in the arts and culture. Women ballerinas…
The newspaper business has welcomed women for many years; women have had much success as…
The Civil War affected everyone, both in the North and in the South in the…
Women contribute in every field of endeavor – including as architects. Their contributions have been…
We wrote about some of the women who were Nobel Laureates a few years ago…
As we all are aware, women contribute to our arts and culture in many ways. …
The statement of a friend triggered the thought – what wouldn’t we have without women? …
Over the course of our lives, we learn poems, songs, and hymns without thinking about…
With the start of each new year, many of us make resolutions whereby we vow…
The chairwoman of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway for almost thirty years, Mari Hulman George died…
Women are often on the front lines of social change. Over the last two hundred…
As we mourn the recent death of the Queen of Soul, Aretha Franklin, we take…
Mmmmm! Food! As women, we are generally connected with all aspects of food preparation. In…
In May of 2018, the United States Postal Service issued a Forever postage stamp featuring…
Isn’t it amazing that we are still experiencing women’s firsts across many areas of business…
When you think of baseball, you might not picture women playing “America’s game.” In fact,…
How ironic that there was a mystery about the author of the beloved mysteries that…
At the time of the landing at Jamestown, the arrival of the Pilgrims, through the…
The movie A Wrinkle in Time, adapted from Madeline L’Engle’s Newbery Medal award-winning book, started…
The Oscar nominees for 2018 have been announced and shortly after this column appears in…
Google Arts & Culture is presenting exhibits on inventors and discoverers for online viewing. Five…
In October 2017, the University of Virginia announced the hiring of the first African-American woman…
National Statuary Hall in the United States Capitol building in Washington, D.C., contains 100 statues…
On August 21, 2017, the first total solar eclipse in 99 years visible from coast…
The 2017 book, The Radium Girls, describes the terrible illnesses the women who painted radium…
When September and fall arrive, students head back to school and college. Although women college…
The protagonist of the movie Wonder Woman fearlessly pursues her passion. Many women on whose…