Isabella MacDuff (1285-1313) was a heroine during the Wars of Scottish Independence. These wars were between England and Scotland in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. Isabella
Category: Women’s History Month – 2019
Women’s History Month: Dorothy Hodgkin, Insulin
Dorothy Hodgkin (1910-1994) was a British chemist who developed protein crystallography. She won a Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1964 for her work in the
Women’s History Month: Katharine Hepburn
Katharine Houghton Hepburn (1907-2003) She is my favorite. She is my version of classic. IMHO she came off as a no nonsense, give three shits
Women’s History Month: Claudette Colvin, Civil Rights Pioneer
Claudette Colvin is a civil rights pioneer. On March 2, 1955, she refused to give up her bus seat for a white woman on an
Women’s History Month: Grace Banker and the Hello Girls
Grace D Banker (1892-1960) was a telephone operator during World War 1. She, along with several other women telephone operators, were known as the Hello Girls.
Women’s History Month: Rosalind Franklin, DNA
One of my favorite pastimes is tracing the history of my ancestors. In recent years I did the DNA test kit through the ancestry website
