When in 1874 a group of artists rejected by the official Salon organized their own exhibition…
Kategoria: Forgotten Women
Franceska Mann’s Defiance in Auschwitz Revealed
Before she was sent to hell, she danced on Europe’s stages. Fourth place out of 125…
Florence Parpart: The Forgotten Inventor of the Refrigerator
In 1914, a New Jersey resident filed a patent application that would forever change the way…
Ágnes Keleti: Holocaust Survivor and Olympic Legend
When most gymnasts end their careers before turning thirty, Ágnes Keleti was just beginning to collect…
Jean Bartik: Pioneer of Programming and ENIAC
When the American army searched for personnel to operate the revolutionary ENIAC computer in 1945, no…
Hannah Szenes: Heroic Paratrooper’s Final Stand
In 1944, a twenty-three-year-old woman with an agricultural school diploma stood before a Hungarian military court…
Lucretia Mott and the Battle for Equal Rights
When a young teacher from Nantucket discovered she was earning exactly half as much as her…
Rokeya Hossain: The Forgotten Pioneer of Women’s Rights
Before Western feminists started burning bras, a Bengali writer in traditional attire went door-to-door, pleading with…
Emma Rotor: The Filipina Who Changed WWII
When a Georgetown professor discovered documents about Emma Rotor in the archives in 2023, her family…
Susie King Taylor: The Forgotten Civil War Heroine
In the 1850s, teaching enslaved people in Georgia was punishable by severe penalties. Nevertheless, seven-year-old Susie…