Prudence Crandall opens a school for Black girls
“She was a slender young woman, with bright blue eyes, soft blond hair, and a special way of speaking, quiet, controlled –, ‘lady-like,’ as people said in the e...
“She was a slender young woman, with bright blue eyes, soft blond hair, and a special way of speaking, quiet, controlled –, ‘lady-like,’ as people said in the e...
“One night when the officers are on shore, we’re going to take the boat, put you and the children aboard and sail it out to the bar. With my wearing Captain Rel...
Standing 5’7″ and willowy with long wavy golden hair and blue-gray eyes, Alice Hathaway Lee was radiant, enchanting. Family members called her ̶...
Albert Einstein was so impressed by Marie Curie when he met her, that when Marie was dealing with a public attack on her persona for having exchanged love lette...
Emma Sharp was a pedestrian, which in 19th century life was the term for an athlete competing in pedestrianism, one of the most popular sports in the western wo...
Maya Angelou was 16 years old when she decided to become a streetcar conductor in San Francisco. But getting the job wasn’t easy. She couldn’t even ...
Bill Harley was tall and quiet, a mechanical engineer by training. Arthur Davidson was short and talkative, he was a story teller, a sales guy. They were just t...
Juli Lynne Charlot was 25, broke, when in the winter of 1947 she was invited to a holiday party in Los Angeles. Without an outfit to wear or money for a new one...
“She was a modern woman in a not-so modern age. At a time when her contemporaries were swathed in petticoats and corsets, Harriet Quimby was climbing into...
In a time before alarm clocks became affordable and reliable, a knocker-up was hired to wake sleeping people so that they could get to work on time. “The ...