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.
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.
Until the mid-1800s, people were not able to purchase clothing commercially or in sizes to fit them. Maternity clothing would not be commercially available until the early 1900s. Two women who contributed enormously to advances in dressmaking and clothing are Ellen Curtis Demorest and Lena Bryant. Let’s learn more about these two groundbreaking fashionistas.
Ellen Curtis Demorest is widely credited for being the first woman to create paper patterns for making clothing. She worked in a millinery shop after completing her schooling.
