Born Fannie Coralie Perkins, Frances Perkins Wilson made history when she was appointed U.S. Secretary of Labor under President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry ...
Jane Addams was a leading women's rights activist and suffragist. She was one of the most prominent social reformers of the Progressive Era. As a suffragist, pi...
Louisa May Alcott is known for her famous classic Little Women, published in 1868. She wrote two sequels to the book as well. Throughout her life, her...
Much of the traditional narrative of the human race as told by history textbooks is that we began as backwards, prejudiced people who lived in predominantly pat...
Dorothea Lynde Dix spent much of her career as an educator and social reformer to working with the mentally ill and creating some of the first mental asylums in...
Born in 1640, Aphra Behn was one of the first women in England to make a career out of writing. As a playwright, poet, translator, and Restoration era author, s...
Isabella I of Castile ruled as Queen of Castile and León from December 11, 1474 until her death on November 26, 1504. Though she struggled to claim the throne f...
Born in Darke County, Ohio on August 13, 1860, Annie Oakley's birth name was Phoebe Ann Mosey. After the death of both her father and eventually step father, sh...
Up until the Nineteenth Amendment was passed in 1920, women were unable to vote. After decades of women’s suffragists fighting for their rights, they were final...
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Those of us that are big time movie buffs have had the privilege of watching certain people grow up, or grow old, on the big screen in num...
