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...
Mary Ann Todd Lincoln was President Abraham Lincoln’s wife and First Lady of the United States for four years, from 1861 to 1865, but was an unpopular first lad...
The first woman in the United States to hold national office was Jeannette Pickering Rankin, who served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1917-1919. Twe...
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Lucy Stone, the first woman from Massachusetts to earn a college degree, was a well known suffragist along with being an orator and ...
Alice Paul was a prominent women’s right activist and suffragist. Paul was the main leader of the campaign for the Nineteenth Amendment, passed in 1920, which a...
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Yesterday, three million women around the world joined with the Women's March on Washington to declare that "Women's rights are hu...
Guinness recognized White as the female entertainer with the longest television career in history, over 75 years in the making. That was 2013. It’s been three y...
Frances Hodgson Burnett, an English-American author, was best known for her three children’s novels, Little Lord Fauntleroy, A Little Princess, and perhaps her ...
Of the three Brontë sisters who survived into adulthood, Charlotte Brontë was the oldest. Her most famous work is Jane Eyre, published in October of 1847 under ...
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Almost everyone has heard of the famous Delphic Oracle. Whether it was from a school textbook, a documentary heralding the en...
