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