Among her adopted family, she had rights that would never be granted a woman in colonial society.

Rather than punish the women (and preteen girls) for the rest of their lives, we need to punish the men who do these things to them.

Her biggest glory was eclipsed by the sinking of the Titanic. The was the first solo flight by a woman across the English Channel.

She witnessed the Civil War and World War 1 in the US.

According to most sources, she gave birth to a daughter in 1812 and died. William Clark then adopted her two children, although the man who

Her work encouraged preserving the California Redwoods, rather than cutting them all down and turning them into furniture.

She developed sewage treatment options, which have saved millions of lives over the years.

When her father suggested she look at more crops the plantations could grow, her botany knowledge gave her ideas.

Almost all women have to invent something during some point in their lives. Most of those inventions are forgotten, or if they continue to

Abigail Scott Duniway's work gave women the right to vote, and hope that in the future women may eventually be valued equal to a man in job

What happened to Virginia? The pioneering first European North American infant? No one really knows.

It is relevant today, as any social ill can be recognized as tearing both the individual, and the family, apart. That river.

Her interests concerned the both the livelihood of the fisherman, as well as conserving the fish population for future generations.

It was also a life of firsts. Both as a woman, and in some cases, a photographer.

Thanks to Laura Dewey Bridgeman, some people began to recognize that deafblind could be active members of society. 

She learned everything she could. At the time, like many young women, she balanced art, music, and dance, with the available book learning

Teaching wasn't enough. She sought to work for the federal government, though women had not been allowed to before that time.

Her judgeship was not her last. She continued onward through the legal system, including being the first female judge on the Ohio State Sup

Her works, and court cases against male authors who wanted to write on the same topic, led to the beginnings of copyright law in the US. How

Abigail Adams (1744 - 1818) tried to make woman equal to men from day one in the United States. She fought against her husband, future sec