Women
Cornelia Fort: Eyewitness to Pearl Harbor
Cornelia Fort was a certified civilian flight instructor who worked for the Andrews Flying Service in Honolulu, a Nashville debutante who had kicked her way into the male dominated world of general aviation. (1) She was only 22 and already an experienced pilot with hundreds of flight hours to her credit. On December 7,…
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Toby Riddle: “Pocahontas of the Lava Beds” ?
Last week I was stunned to read this tweet from the Women’s History Museum of California:(1) Toby Riddle was one of the first Native American women acknowledged by US Congress for her actions in time of war. In 1891 Congress granted her a pension of at “the rate of twenty-five dollars per month” for her…
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Writing Women Back Into History: The National Women’s History Alliance
If you’re in the United States and interested in women’s history, you should keep the National Women’s History Alliance (formerly the National Women’s History Project) on your radar.(1) Founded in 1980, NWHP led the coalition that successfully lobbied Congress to name March as National Women’s History Month. Today the organization is a major clearing house…
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