Women helping women is how Adelaide Johnson rose to modest acclaim as a sculptor in the late 1890’s. Known as the “sculptress of the women’s movement” Adelaide Johnson is best known for The Portrait Monument, a sculpture of suffragette leaders Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony. Now …
Her name means Lotus in Sanskrit. Former Attorney General Jeff Sessions said her questioning “makes me nervous”. She made a YouTube video to teach Senator Mark Warner how to make a decent tuna melt. And yesterday California Senator Kamala Harris made history as the first Black woman and first woman …
Leave it to a woman to help people see clearly. Inspiration struck Alabama native Mary Anderson on a visit to New York City in 1902. Traveling through the wet, snowy city by streetcar, she noticed how often the driver stopped, got out, and cleared the windshield so he could see …
The first day of school can be scary. New people, new rules, a new environment. Now, add a violent mob, federal marshals, and death threats. This is what six-year-old Ruby Bridges faced on her first day of her new, all-white elementary school. Ruby Bridges was born in 1954, the same …
Ruth Wakefield was a dietician who invented the chocolate chip cookie, which makes them healthy and just fine to eat in bunches, right? Born in 1903, Ruth graduated from Framington State Normal School Department of Household Arts in 1924. She taught home economics, gave lectures on food and cooking, and …
It’s a lyrical image: two young children wandering the English countryside with sketchbooks, plopping down suddenly in the tall grass to open their water color cases and start to paint. This was childhood for Helen Beatrix Potter, whose love of art and animals led to the most successful children’s literature …
Hers was a life of firsts: The first African-American woman elected to the Texas Senate after Reconstruction. The first woman from Texas, and the first African-American woman since 1898, to be elected to the United States House of Representatives. The first African-American woman to serve on the House Judiciary Committee. …
A star in many fields, Maria (pronounced Mar-eye-ah) Mitchell, the first female astronomer in the United States, was also an educator, librarian, naturalist, suffragette and anti-slavery activist. Born in Nantucket, Massachusetts in 1818, Maria’s Quaker parents believed all their children should be educated – not a common idea back then. …
The true story of Marie Antionette begins on Nov. 2, 1755 with her birth in Vienna. The eleventh child of the Empress Maria Theresa, ruler of the Habsburg Empire, and the Holy Roman Emperor Francis I, Maria Antonia (her Austrian name) is destined to live a life dictated by others. …
How do I write a poem for a statue? That was the question Emma Lazarus posed in 1882, when she was asked to donate an original work to help raise money for the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty. Her first response was no, despite her own immigrant story: The …