Women's History

In this NY Times article from July 3rd, 1937, the newspaper reported on Earhart's disappearance. The article mentions her husband's response to her disappearance, describes the search effort, and how close Earhart was to achieving her goal of becoming the first female pilot to…

After Weems’ initial offer to Earhart, her publishing magnate husband, G. P. Putnam, responded the next day to Weems’ offer, kindly rejecting it. This brief and forgotten exchange of letters sheds further light on the frequent criticism of Earhart from both her contemporary peers and from…

Weems wrote this letter to Earhart after her near-disastrous takeoff attempt in Hawaii in 1937. Extra navigation training may not have kept Earhart from disaster, but it might have allowed to her appreciate shortcomings in planning an equipment.

Amelia Earhart’s Electra, designated NR16020, was a modified Lockheed Model 10E with a range of more than 4,000 miles, a cruising speed of approximately 190 miles per hour, and a maximum ceiling pushing over 19,400 feet above sea level.

Despite Oberlin's progressive tradition, not all reforms received the full support of the community. In particular, the women's suffrage question generated heated debate. In March of 1870, one hundred and forty married women of Lorain County petitioned the state legislature, protesting…

 

“The Woman Who Dared” cover illustration by Thomas Wust (of Susan B. Anthony) for The Daily Graphic, June 5, 1873 

 

Susan B. Anthony and other suffragists cast votes in the 1872 presidential election as a strategy to confront what had become male-only electoral privileges across most elections in the United States. They attempted to invoke the citizenship clause (“privileges or immunities”) and the equal…

Clara Barton was an American nurse who founded the American Red Cross. During The Civil War, she was a hospital nurse, teacher, and patent clerk.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton, a leading figure in the women's rights movement of the 19th century, delivered the inaugural address of the Seneca Falls Convention in Seneca Falls, NY to advocate for the rights of women. In this speech, she spoke about discriminatory laws against women, the need for…

The 19th Amendment granted American women the legal right to vote, a milestone achieved through decades of struggle. Beginning in the mid-19th century, generations of suffragists engaged in lectures, writings, marches, lobbying efforts, and acts of civil disobedience to push for what was once seen…

<p>Fifty years ago, the Equal Credit Act was an important step in affording women control of their own finances.</p>

<p>We weren't always welcomed home from the war. But we were good at what we did and the patients knew we mattered. </p>

<p>President Johnson shocked the nation when he ended his bid for reelection in 1968. As early as 1964, Lady Bird had suggested that he might not want to run for a second term.</p>

<p><span class="deck"><span class="typestyle">Legend says the frontier was “hell on women,” but the ladies claim they had the time of their lives</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> Proud and independent, the farm girls of New England helped build an industrial Eden, but its paternalistic innocence was not to last</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck"> A shy Yankee named Hannah Adams never thought of herself as liberated, but she was our first professional female writer.</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> “I do not admit that a woman can draw like that,” said Degas when he saw one of her pictures</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"><span class="typestyle">One day in 1869 the gentlemen of the territorial legislature amused themselves by enacting the first woman-suffrage law. They trusted in a veto from the governor</span> </span></p>

<p>The prevailing Colonial feeling toward female education was unanimously negative. Learning to read was the first feminist triumph.</p>

<p><span class="deck">Harriet Beecher Stowe, an extraordinary member of an extraordinary family, always claimed that God wrote</span> Uncle Tom’s Cabin</p>

<p><span class="deck"> Beset with ailments, Victorian women found solace, in more ways than one, in a new panacea—hydropathy</span> </p>

<p>An interview with the famed suffragette, Alice Paul</p>

<p><span class="deck"> In forty years of scraping and scrapping for women’s rights, Abigail Scott Duniway never lost her nerve or wicked tongue</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck"> IMAGES OF SWEETHEARTS, WIVES, AND MOTHERS HAVE OFTER BEEN USED TO INSPIRE PATRIOTIC FERVOR</span> </p>

<p>Soujourner Truth's mission was “testifyin’ concerning the wickedness of this ‘ere people.”</p>

<p><span class="deck"> “Viewed purely in the abstract, I think there can be no question that women should have equal rights with men …I would have the word ‘obey’ used no more by the wife than by the husband.”</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> How a Crash Program Developed an Efficient Oral Contraceptive in Less Than a Decade</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> Unschooled and uncompromising, she founded her own faith</span> </span></p>

<p>She was “one of the most active and most reliable of the many secret woman agents of the Confederacy.”</p>

<p><span class="deck"> Although it has been disparaged as “General Washington’s Sewing Circle,” this venture was the first nationwide female organization in America</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck">One of Ruth Snyder’s Crimes Was Murder</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> The sexual habits of American women, examined half a century before Kinsey</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck">How the mistress of the plantation became a slave</span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> How Juliette “Daisy” Low, an unwanted child, a miserable wife, a lonely widow, finally found happiness as the founder of the Girl Scouts of America</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> How a young New York society matron named Alice Shaw dazzled English royalty with her extraordinary embouchure</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> The author recalls two generations of “Cliffie” life—hers and her mother’s—in the years when male and female education took place on opposite sides of the Cambridge Common and women were expected to wear hats in Harvard Square</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> For millions of women, consciousness raising didn’t start in the 1960s. It started when they helped win World War II.</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> E.G. Lewis decided that a strong man could liberate American women and make money doing it</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck">The American Revolution was in fact a bitter civil war, and a remarkable book offers us perhaps the most intimate picture we have of what it was like for the ordinary people who got caught in its terrible machinery.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">Consigned to the Pennsylvania Railroad’s “Garbage Run,” they fought their own war on the home front, and they helped shape a victory as surely as their brothers and husbands did overseas.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">You’ve likely never heard of her.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">How women entrepreneurs reshaped the American economic landscape in the wake of World War II</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">Nearly a century after her debut, her wit, bravado, and sexuality are a bigger presence than ever.</span></p>