Women's History

Tell us about your foremothers

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First The first female U.S. mayor was nominated by men as a joke. She won with 2/3 of the vote. (www.upworthy.com)

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The Origins of the Feminist Art Movement | JSTOR Daily (daily.jstor.org)

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First Remembering Miss Fury – the world's first great superheroine (www.bbc.com)

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The female form through time (artsandculture.google.com)

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Rightfully Hers: A Trail of Women's Activism in Arkansas - Arkansas Women's History Institute (www.arkansaswomen.org)

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Invisible women: how Hong Kong’s colonial criminal justice system treated female suspects (www.scmp.com)

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Women of the Revolutionary War — Fraunces Tavern® Museum (www.frauncestavernmuseum.org)

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Funny girls: Heroines of slapstick | The Independent | The Independent (www.independent.co.uk)

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First Meet the Woman Who Trekked a 1,200-Mile Ice Age Trail in the Dead of Winter - Atlas Obscura (www.atlasobscura.com)

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'They were certainly pioneers': Fairfield University looks back on 50 years of women (www.fairfieldcitizenonline.com)

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A Conspiracy of Silence By Agnes Wade – Women’s Liberation Radio News (wlrnmedia.wordpress.com)

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Uncomfortable History | History Today (www.historytoday.com)

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Jeanette Scissum - Alabama female mathematician blazed new trails at NASA (alabamanewscenter.com)

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St Helens' Lizzy Ashcroft has a place in women’s football history (www.sthelensstar.co.uk)

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Female banker Charlotte Elizabeth Battles to receive historical marker in Girard, Pennsylvania (eu.goerie.com)

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First Dr Margaret Sharp - Remarkable career of Bradford's first woman GP (www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk)

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Debunking a myth (news.harvard.edu)

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First 'I've been ignored all my life': Britain's first black female Olympian Anita Neil tells her story (www.dailymail.co.uk)

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First 211 Years Later, The First Woman To Earn A Patent Continues To Shape Easter Celebrations (www.forbes.com)

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This Ace Aviatrix Learned to Fly Even Though Orville Wright Refused to Teach Her |At the Smithsonian | Smithsonian Magazine (www.smithsonianmag.com)

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Women's History: Female Firsts (www.britannica.com)

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The executed innocent: Why justice for Ethel Rosenberg still matters (www.newstatesman.com)

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Femmes Résistantes: World War II’s Unsung Warriors (www.francetoday.com)

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First Hidden women of history: Hélisenne de Crenne, the first French novelist to tell her own story (theconversation.com)

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Girls and Dolls in the Roman Empire (daily.jstor.org)

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