Encyclopaedia Britannica provides a biography of Mary Morse Baker Eddy, founder of Christian Science.

Photograph of women parading in support of women's suffrage.

A truly incredible site from American Memory provides text and audio from former slaves. Listen to men and women, some people over 100 years old, describe their days during and after slavery.

Mary Greig was an assistant in the department of public health, American Museum of Natural History, New York

Libbie Henrietta Hyman (1888-1969) graduated from the University of Chicago in 1910 and earned a Ph.D. degree from Chicago in 1915. She stayed at the university with an appointment as a research assistant until 1931 because, despite her...