The Civil War affected everyone, both in the North and in the South in the U.S. We are reminded of this time in our country’s history as we follow the recent events in Washington, D.C. at the Treasury Department.
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Newspapers have been important sources of information during much of this country’s history. In this month’s ENewsletter we profile two women who ran newspapers and made historic contributions in those roles: Mary Katherine Goddard and Katharine Graham.
Born in 1738, Mary Katherine Goddard learned the printing business from her brother in Providence, Rhode Island, after the death of her physician father. With her mother, she published the Providence Gazette.
Jill Tietjen, co-author of Her Story: A Timeline of the Women Who Changed America, appeared on Georgia Public Broadcasting’s Biscuits to Biscuits sharing information about the founder of Girl Scouts, Juliette Gordon Low.
Women contribute in every field of endeavor – including as architects. Their contributions have been recognized for more than 100 years in this profession.
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Women’s contributions to education which include everything from endowing the schools to running them have occurred at every level from pre-school through graduate school. In this month’s ENewsletter we profile two women who served as college presidents, where they improved higher education with their groundbreaking accomplishments.
The second president of Bryn Mawr College, M. Carey Thomas,was raised in a Quaker family and overcame her father’s objections to attend college. She graduated from Cornell University in 1877 and then pursued graduate studies at Johns Hopkins University and the University of Leipzig.
We wrote about some of the women who were Nobel Laureates a few years ago but there are others! Here is a recap about these famous international awards.
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