by Jill Tietjen | Jun 1, 2014 | In The News, Newsletters
On May 7, 2014, a groundbreaking ceremony for the Center for Great Women was held by the National Women’s Hall of Fame in Seneca Falls, New York, the birthplace of women’s rights and the home of the Hall. In honor of that groundbreaking, in this month’s enewsletter we feature two of the women who were discussed in a talk the night before the ceremony. That talk highlighted a few of the groundbreaking women from our book Her Story: A Timeline of the Women Who Changed America. The two women we are pleased to feature are Frances Wisebart Jacobs and Saint Katharine Drexel. 
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by Jill Tietjen | May 1, 2014 | In The News, Newsletters
Our mothers gave birth to us, raised us, and helped launch us as adults. What we sometimes forget is that mothers have done so much more than these very important jobs. Mothers have fought for the rights and privileges that we enjoy as U.S. citizens today. In honor of Mother’s Day, we profile two amazing mothers in this month’s enewsletter: Annie Dodge Wauneka and Coretta Scott King.
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by Jill Tietjen | Apr 1, 2014 | In The News, Newsletters
On March 27, chemist Stephanie Kwolek was inducted into the Hall of Fame of Delaware Women. The Delaware Hall includes several of the women featured in our book Her Story: A Timeline of the Women Who Changed America. In this month’s enewsletter, we profile Emily Bissell as well as Stephanie Kwolek. 
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by Jill Tietjen | Mar 1, 2014 | In The News, Newsletters
The recent death of Shirley Temple Black has brought many newspaper articles about her uplifting effect as a child actor. It was maintained that with her acting, singing and dancing, she actually helped people who suffered through the Great Depression. In this month’s enewsletter, we feature two women who were early entertainers in America: Sissieretta Jones and Molly Picon.
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by Jill Tietjen | Feb 1, 2014 | In The News, Newsletters
During the months of November and December, many Americans traveled to see their family and friends – in both the U.S. and around the world. Although that travel may have been full of its own difficulties and delays, we are fortunate today to have the opportunity to fly almost anywhere in the world. We do this conveniently and in a relatively short time (you may know that the Mayflower took two months to get to America!). Two women who were aviation pioneers helped make flying possible for all of us. This month we feature Bessie Coleman and Amelia Earhart.
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by Jill Tietjen | Jan 13, 2014 | In The News, Newsletters
In December 2013, General Motors announced that its first woman CEO would take the reins in January 2014. As 
part of the celebration of Mary Barra’s achievement in being the first woman to head a major automobile company, this month we profile two women business leaders from our book Her Story: A Timeline of the Women Who Changed America. The women we selected were early business leaders: Rebecca Webb Lukens and Rose Markward Knox.
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