Mar 7, 2019 | Women's History Month
Search for: The Night of Terror: When Suffragists Were Imprisoned and Tortured in 1917 Dorothy Day was described by her fellow suffragists as a “frail girl.” Yet on the night of November 14, 1917, prison guards at the Occoquan Workhouse, did not hold back after she...
Mar 15, 2017 | Blog, Women's History Month
Search for: Marie Curie Marie Curie (1867–1934) was born Maria Sklodowska, in Warsaw, Poland. She became the first woman to win a Nobel Prize and the only woman to win the award in two different fields (physics and chemistry). Curie’s efforts, with her husband...
Mar 15, 2017 | Blog, Women's History Month
Search for: 19 Things You Might Not Know Were Invented by Women 1. THE PAPER BAG America got a brand new paper bag when cotton mill worker Margaret Knight invented a machine to make them with a flat square bottom in 1868. (Paper bags originally looked more like...
