Two new books have come out profiling the accomplishments and contributions of two of the women from our book Her Story: A Timeline of the Women Who Changed America.
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Major Nancy Leftenant Colon, the U.S. Army’s first Black nurse, died in early 2025. The granddaughter of slaves, she wanted to enlist in the U.S. Army in 1941 but was denied that opportunity due to her race.
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In early January 2025, President Biden bestowed the Presidential Medal of Freedom on 19 individuals.
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On December 16, 2024, President Biden established a national monument in Newcastle, Maine honoring Frances Perkins.
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In 1952 when Dr. Virginia Apgar developed her score to assess the health of newborns and determine what medical attention they required, most of the focus at a baby’s birth was on the mother.
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The early women engineers in the U.S. had to deal with a good deal of prejudice. They faced discrimination, disbelief that they could be engineers, and other hardships.
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