Shin-Kickers From History
Talking About Women’s History: Three Questions and a Couple of Answers with Lorissa Rinehart
Lorissa Rinehart is a women’s historian, author, and social entrepreneur whose work explores the intersections of women’s history, politics, war, and peace. She is the author of Winning the Earthquake: How Jeannette Rankin Defied All Odds to Become America’s First Congresswoman, praised by Publishers Weekly as “an illuminating biography,” and First to the Front: The…
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Dr. Florence Sabin: A Career with a Second-Act Twist.
Dr. Florence Sabin (1871-1953) was one of the first women doctors to build a career as a research scientist. Sabin was interested in math and science from the beginning. She attended Smith College, where she majored in zoology. One of her professors encouraged her to study medicine at Johns Hopkins new co-educational medical school.[1] Sabin…
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History on Display: The National Civil Rights Museum
Because we are heading into the Martin Luther King holiday weekend here in the United States. I thought it was an appropriate time to re-run my post on our visit to the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis in the spring of 2024. It turns out that I didn’t write one. With questions of institutionalized…
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