Women
Talking About Women’s History: Three Questions and an Answer with Sharon M. Harris
Sharon M. Harris worked in business for several years before she went back to college, finished her B.A., and went on to earn an M.A. and Ph.D., after which she had a wonderful twenty-five-year career in academia. She “retired” in order to have more time to write, and now is a writer full time, focusing…
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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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