How Emily Faithfull Revolutionized Women’s Work

Emily Faithfull was born in 1835 as the daughter of an Anglican clergyman from Surrey. Three…

Yvonne Brill: The Mind Behind Satellite Engines

When the United States launched the space race in the 1940s, Yvonne Brill was the only…

Retta Scott: Trailblazer for Women in Animation

Retta Scott made history as the first woman to receive an official animator credit in the…

Anna Wheeler: American Mathematics Pioneer

Anna Johnson Pell Wheeler was a pioneer of linear algebra in infinite dimensions, a field that…

Jane Franklin: The Woman Behind Arctic History

Jane Franklin went down in history as a woman who refused to accept her fate. When…

Ellen Russell Emerson: Trailblazer for Women in Science

In the second half of the 19th century, American science was dominated by men, and women…

Tania Savicheva: Child’s Story of War Survival

The history of the Siege of Leningrad is remembered as one of the most tragically significant…

Elsie Ott: First Woman Awarded the Air Medal

In January 1943, a young nurse with no flight experience boarded a transport plane to care…

Freddie Oversteegen: Dutch WWII Resistance Fighter

In Nazi-occupied Netherlands, three teenage girls became some of the most effective members of the resistance…

Minerva Allen: Bridging Tradition and Modernity

Born in 1934 in northern Montana, a woman from the Assiniboine tribe spent ninety years building…