Let’s take a trip to Hawaii today, where this week native Hawaiians honored Queen Lili´uokalani, the first woman and the last monarch to rule the islands. The chain of islands that would become America’s 50th state was originally established as a monarchy by King Kamehameha I, who conquered the islands …
As the saying goes, when one door closes another one opens. For Anni Albers that open door led to her life as a textile designer. Annelise Fleischmann was born in Germany in 1899. She took painting lessons when she was young and hoped to become a painter. Discouraged by a …
They stood in front of the White House all day, every day (except for Sundays) for two and a half years, bearing silent witness to women’s voting rights denied. Dressed in white, with purple and gold sashes draped over their shoulders, the Silent Sentinels, as these women were known, stood …
The crowd inside the Tennessee State Capitol on Aug. 18, 1920 was colorful, to say the least. Men, mostly state legislators, sported red roses pinned to the lapels of their black suits; women wearing suffragette white filled the visitor’s gallery, yellow roses pinned to their hats, their dresses, even carried …
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 …
Labor and civil rights leader Dolores Clara Huerta has always been a force. She spoke of farm workers as essential workers decades before the term became part of the our daily vocabulary. Her rallying cry, “¡Sí se puede!” (Yes, we can!) has inspired more than one movement — maybe even …
“All we wanted was to be stewards of this house,” Laura Luce says, looking out to the sunken back yard of her historic David Adler home in Lake Forest, Illinois. A careful restoration that respects the famed architect’s vision while at the same time creating a welcoming place to call …
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 …
Is it possible to create an image of something that by definition is impossible to see? That was the question computer scientist Katie Bouman set out to answer five years ago as a lead member of the Event Horizon Telescope, an international collaboration between astronomers, engineers, physicists and mathematicians tasked …
