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AFRICAN AMERICAN ACTIVISTS Claudette Colvin and Ida B. Wells

August 2, 2022

Coverture: The Word You Probably Don’t Know But Should

July 15, 2022
From the Women’s History Museum, September 4, 2012

Why was Megan Rapinoe awarded the Medal of Freedom? USWNT star a recipient of president’s highest honor in 2022

July 14, 2022

The Story of the School that Defied Nazi Ideological Control – History News Network

July 11, 2022

ONE BUT NOT THE SAME BY by Leah Tyus

July 7, 2022
THE SUN WAS SETTING as my backpacking group and I headed back to our campsite from Cinder Cone in Lassen Volcanic National Park.

How Octavia E. Butler mined her boundless curiosity to forge a new vision for humanity

June 22, 2022
in The Conversation   June, 2022

RENOVATION

June 20, 2022

Dual honors for Boston College historian Heather Cox Richardson

June 16, 2022
Professor of History Heather Cox Richardson, a leading national commentator on American history and politics, recently received two noteworthy honors.

The Music and Art of Norma Tanega

May 24, 2022
in Folk Radio, written by Alex Gallacher Norma Tanega left an enduring expression of what it means to be free.

PATTY CARROLL: Death by Décor

May 4, 2022
~ TALKING PICTURES ~ INTERVIEWS WITH PHOTOGRAPHERS AROUND THE WORLD

FRANCES PERKINS IN ACTION From the Triangle Fire to the New Deal

April 26, 2022

Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin – History of Scientific Women

April 21, 2022
Cecilia Helena Payne-Gaposchkin (née Payne; May 10, 1900 – December 7, 1979) was a British-born American astronomer and astrophysicist who proposed in her 1925 doctoral thesis that stars were compose…