Buying a necktie for your dad is a stereotypical way to celebrate Father's Day, but it's in keeping with the holiday's history.
Mary Jane Patterson, the daughter of a slave, is thought to be the first African-American woman to earn a Bachelor's Degree.
A plot to assassinate Lincoln before he was inaugurated was prevented with the help of Kate Warne, the first female detective in the U.S.
She was one of her era’s most effective anti-slavery voices, breaking barriers for women as she advocated for an end to a brutal institution
In the 19th century, embittered and politicized by her struggle for property of her own, Swisshelm began to build up her writing career
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She became famous as the most well-traveled girl in the world—but her 1920s fame came with scandal.
Pearl Hart, who participated in a turn-of-the-century stagecoach robbery, turned her life of crime into national fame.
When she made her mark on the American music industry, women songwriters were almost unheard of
Because she was a woman, she was discouraged from becoming a surgeon. Her medical career, however, ended up changing the world.
How did a slave-owning Southerner become a staunch Lincoln supporter and his trusted adviser? Carroll's life is more questions than answers
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Shirley Chisholm ran in 1972, and exposed the degree to which many Americans believed a woman would never win a major-party nomination
Born a slave, Mary Richards Bowser returned to the South during the Civil War to spy on Confederate leaders
Cuddy recalled that a white male pilot once disobeyed her orders. “Down here,” she told him, “you will shoot when I tell you to shoot.”
Today, marathons are a popular sporting event held all over the world—thanks, in large part, to Boston
For Women's History Month, meet the first female recipient of that national honor
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