FRANCES PERKINS -- THE WOMAN WHO BROUGHT YOU THE WEEKEND

FDR was lukewarm on Labor until Frances Perkins masterminded Social Security, minimum wage, workmen’s comp. . . You’re welcome!

Women, HEROESThe AtticMarch 25, 2022Frances Perkins, FDR, New Deal, Labor History Comments

ELLA BAKER -- HOW TO GROW A MOVEMENT

Everyone knows Rosa and Martin, but there would have been no deep Civil Rights Movement without Ella.

History, REBELS, WomenThe AtticJune 24, 2021Ella Baker, Civil Rights, SNCC, Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee Comment

DIDRIKSON -- THE OTHER BABE

Track and field, golf, baseball, basketball. . . Was there anything Babe Didrikson didn’t play? Yes, she said. Dolls.

Women, HEROESThe AtticFebruary 4, 2021Babe Didrikson, Babe Didrikson Zaharias, WOmen, Women's athletics, Olympics Comments

THE WOMAN WHO SAVES OLD GROWTH

Stepping into Old Growth, Joan Maloof felt the forest. Now she is set on saving “the ancients.”

Women, teachers, TEACHERS, TEACHERS & HEALERSThe AtticDecember 10, 2020Old Growth forests, Joan Maloof, Environment Comments

HAMILTON'S OTHER HALF

Broadway’s biggest hit celebrates the Founding Father, but without Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton, there would have been no “Hamilton.”

History, Women, HEROESThe AtticJuly 23, 2020"Hamilton!", Eliza Hamilton, Alexander Hamilton, American history, Women's history Comments

THE (BLACK) WOMAN WHO MANAGED MORGAN'S MILLIONS

From “behind the curtain of my mind,” the fabulous Belle da Costa Greene masterminded the Morgan Library.

Women, HEROESThe AtticFebruary 4, 2020Belle DaCosta Greene, J.P. Morgan, Morgan library, passing race Comments

EMMA LAZARUS -- GIVE ME YOUR TIRED, YOUR POOR. . .

Her stirring poem about a statue was almost forgotten. Today the statue still speaks in the voice of Emma Lazarus.

Women, DREAMERSThe AtticSeptember 13, 2019Emma Lazarus, Statue of Liberty, Give us your tired, The American Colossus Comment

THE WOMAN WHO SPOKE TO COMPUTERS

When Grace Hopper met those beastly first computers, they spoke only in numbers. “Grandma COBOL” soon taught them English.

Women, ScienceThe AtticMay 31, 2019Grace Hopper, Computers, ENIAC, COBOL, Computer Languages, Women in STEM Comments

IDA TARBELL -- THE WOMAN WHO TOOK ON ROCKEFELLER

Few battles had been so mismatched. A billionaire tycoon vs. a woman with a pen. The winner?

History, Women, HEROESThe AtticMarch 29, 2019Ida Tarbell, Muckrakers, Standard Oil, Rockefeller, Anti-trust suits, Progressive era Comments

MARIAN ANDERSON AND THE CONCERT THAT STIRRED AMERICA

When the D.A.R. turned Marian Anderson away, Eleanor Roosevelt and friends found a better venue.

Women, History, HEROESThe AtticFebruary 21, 2019Marian Anderson, Eleanor Roosevelt, Lincoln Memorial, D.A.R. Comment

THE WOMAN WHO SAID 'NO' TO MCCARTHY

Bullied into silence, Congress got a lesson in integrity from Senator Margaret Chase Smith (R-ME).

Women, History, HEROESThe AtticFebruary 8, 2019Margaret Chase Smith, Joseph McCarthy, McCarthyism, Idealism, 1950s Comments

NELLIE ON THE FLY

Long before journalists were “embedded,” Nellie Bly amazed readers from inside an asylum and by circling the globe — in 72 days.

Women, DREAMERSThe AtticJanuary 26, 2019Nellie Bly, Around the World in 80 Days, Journalism, Women journalists Comments

HELEN KELLER'S MOMENT

Deaf, dumb, and blind, she lived “at sea in a dense fog.” And then her teacher came. (As seen in “The Miracle Worker.”)

Women, teachers, TEACHERS, ATTIC AT THE MOVIESThe AtticNovember 29, 2018Helen Keller, Anne Sullivan, Deaf, Blind, Story of my life, The Miracle Worker Comments

SILENT SENTINELS

Women had marched, picketed protested for 70 years. Then the Silent Sentinels were jailed, tortured, force fed. And you’re too busy to vote? (As seen in “Iron Jawed Angels.”)

Women, HEROES, ATTIC AT THE MOVIESThe AtticJune 30, 2018Women's suffrage, 19th amendment, Alice Paul, Silent Sentinels, Woodrow Wilson Comment

VICTORIA FOR PRESIDENT -- IN 1872

"They cannot roll back the rising tide of reform. The world moves."

Women, REBELSThe AtticMay 3, 2018Women, Wall Street, American Originals, Victoria Woodhull, Frederick Douglass, Presidential campaign Comments

MARGARET MEAD AND HUMANITY'S COMING OF AGE

How one woman changed the way people look at people.

Women, HEROESThe AtticMarch 20, 2018Women, Margaret Mead, anthropology, franz boas, samoa Comment