15 Famous Women Throughout History and Their Lasting Impact There’s so much to learn from these women who changed the world. By Rebecca Norris Women are pretty extraordinary. It’s a tale as old as time — even when a woman’s place in society was forbidden, mocked, challenged, and questioned as a norm. For centuries, women all over the world have made…
Ida Lupino, One of the Pioneering Woman Directors By Noël de Souza Sired into an acting dynasty dating back 300 years, Ida Lupino was born in post-war 1918 London, daughter to an actress mother and a music hall comedian father. By age ten, she had memorized all the leading female roles in Shakespeare’s plays. She attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art…
Remember the Ladies Behind the American Revolution Women were the midwives of the Revolution. By Jeanne Abrams Looking back a quarter-century after the war had ended, in 1807, revolutionary leader and former U.S. president John Adams aptly observed, “Was not every Fireside, indeed a Theater of Politics?” He recognized what popular memory does not: Women were essential players in the…
From abolition to #BlackLivesMatter…the women who have fought the good fight.
There’s no denying that black women have played a powerful and important role in history, though you may not hear their stories as often.
Google Assistant is honoring prominent women in March with the help of its latest feature launched for Women’s History Month.
To commemorate the centennial of the ratification for the women’s vote, new tours and exhibitions can be found across the country.
By Mallika Kallingal Google is honoring a key leader of the women’s suffrage movement, Susan B. Anthony, and celebrating her 200th birthday with a Google Doodle. Anthony worked tirelessly for voting rights for women, but died 14 years before the 19th Amendment — later known as the Susan B. Anthony Amendment — was ratified. Anthony was one of America’s key…
Female idols in an attempt to draw attention to the accomplishments of some remarkable women in the history of the world. Obituary writing is more about life than death: the last word, a testament to a human contribution. Yet who gets remembered — and how — inherently involves judgment. To look back at the obituary archives can, therefore, be a stark…