Did you know the first person to win an Emmy Award was a lady?! That's right. Lots of famous women in history have achieved important female firsts, paving ...
women in modern history, including the 20th-century feminist revolution. Sign at women's protest: "I'm not free while any woman is unfree." shauni on Getty Images via Canva The Changing Experience of Women Through History Ancient history records many strong female figures, rulers and warriors...
set aside to honor women's contributions to American history. Mary Hays McCauley, also known asMolly Pitcher, is perhaps one of Cumberland Valley’s most famous women. Below we commemorate the vital role these equally important but often overlooked women played in Cumberland Valley's rich history...
(Nzinga is featured in our resource: I Will Not Bow My Head: Political Women in World History) Catherine the Great Empress of Russia. 1729-1796 Ambitious and intelligent, Catherine arrived in Russia from Germany in 1744 to marry the 16 year old Grand Duke Peter. His unpopularity allowed her...
Wu Zetian: The Historical Female Emperor Who Shaped China’s History 武则天 wǔzétiān Wu Zetian (625-705) is one of the most remarkable figures in Chinese history, both as an empress and the only female emperor. Her reign during the Tang Dynasty (618–907 AD) is often viewed as a peri...
Bring these important figures to life for students with must-read books about women in history. Including biographies, memoirs, and historical narratives, these selections will inspire all young readers (and can also be used in studying the fun and exciting genre of nonfiction) and are perfect fo...
As Frank Mort suggests, there is a need for a 'new synthesis of business and cultural history' in the somewhat compartmentalized history of consumption. Although historians have recognized the importance of popular women's magazines, extant studies have predominantly focused upon 'cultural' rather tha...
The story of women in the media is in many ways the story of some outstanding pioneering women who frequently risked their reputations, and in some cases their lives, to pave the way for other women journalists. It is also a history that hinged on pivotal historical events—events such as ...
This paper examines the creation of a feminine, untimely relationship to history in two late Victorian ghost stories, Vernon Lee's "Oke of Okehurst" (1886) and E. Nesbit's "Man-Size in Marble" (1887). Nineteenth-century ghost stories, I argue, perform a radical mode of historical...
Captured below are images depicting women throughout different eras of history. As a group obstructed by sexism over many centuries, women often fail to ...