Educator and civil rights activist Septima Poinsette Clark played a significant part in gaining voting and civil rights for African Americans. Clark is known as...
Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna Romanova of Russia was Tsar Nicholas II’s youngest daughter. Tsar Nicholas was the final sovereign of Imperial Russia as the ...
The founder of Mother’s Day in the United States was Anna Jarvis. It became an official holiday in 1908, after she created it in 1904. However, Jarvis denounced...
Austrian-Swedish physicist Lise Meitner is known for leading a group of scientists, along with Otto Hahn, who were the first to discover that when it absorbed a...
From 1533-36, Anne Boleyn was the Queen of England. She was the second of Henry VIII’s six wives. On May 19, 1536, she was executed in the Tower of London. She ...
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 ...
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...
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...
