Anne Brontë was the youngest member of the Brontë family. Born in 1820, she only lived to be twenty-nine, dying in 1849. She and her sisters, Charlotte and Emil...
Carrie Chapman Catt was a notable women's suffragist. She campaigned heavily for the Nineteenth Amendment, which gave women the right to vote. She was also the ...
Thomas Paine is perhaps best remembered for his influential pamphlets written at the start of the American Revolution, Common Sense (1776) especially. He was an...
On April 18, 1906, disaster struck Northern California at 5:12 a.m. when a huge earthquake hit. It was an estimated 7.8 on the moment magnitude scale. It was fe...
Born Friedrich Wilhelm Ludolf Gerhard Augustin von Steuben, Baron Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben was a military officer in the American Revolution from Prussia. ...
Women have played a significant role in American political history. By the time the 19th Amendment was passed in 1920, many states had already given women votin...
Margaret Madeline Chase Smith was the first woman to serve on both the United States House of Representatives and the Senate. She served on the former from Main...
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, more commonly known by his pen name of Lewis Carroll. English writer, mathematician, Anglican deacon, logician, and photographer, Dodg...
Harriet Elisabeth Beecher Stowe is best known for 1852 novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin that showed how harsh life for African American slaves was. The novel became infl...
The Seneca Falls Convention, held on July 19 to July 20, 1848, was the first ever women’s rights convention. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott, and other fe...
