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Women's History
When Amelia Earhart and the ‘Queen of Diamonds’ Raced to Become the First Woman to Fly…
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This Russian Noblewoman, Beloved by Catherine the Great and Benjamin Franklin, Embodied the Age of…
If not for her many accomplishments, Ekaterina Dashkova would have been a footnote in history,…
How the Memory of a Song Reunited Two Women Separated by the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade
In 1933, the pioneering Black linguist Lorenzo Dow Turner met an elderly Gullah Geechee woman named Amelia Dawley in a remote coastal village south of Savannah, Georgia. While Turner recorded, Dawley sang a song…
How the Women of the North Platte Canteen Fed Six Million Soldiers During World War II
One of the most inspiring wartime volunteer efforts in United States history began with a mix-up.…