In Your Face Women

In-your-face woman Jeanette Rankin apparently had it in her to serve the State of Montana and her country in the United States Congress. U...

It's hard to imagine what Hattie Beck's Army colonel father and school teacher mother must have thought of her becoming a chorus ...

Nine months after the first Model T Ford rolled off the assembly line, while women were still being told that driving cars would be too mu...

Only seven years after the Wright Brothers flew the first circle in a heavier-than-air powered machine, Harriet Quimby was awarded her p...

Polish nationalist Anna Henryka Pustowojtowna was the daughter of a tsarist general of Hungarian roots and a Polish mother who apparentl...

Not only have women fought in every war waged throughout history, but their stories have been a matter of public record. Ludwig van Beetho...

There are a lot of stories told about Mary Ellen Pleasant, most of them started by Pleasant herself. Insofar as she was apparently bor...

Poland, Lithuania, and Belarus all celebrate the legacy of the revolutionary Countess Emilia Plater who died young but has not been forgo...

Not every in-your-face woman is immediately apparent. Though Christine de Pizan's father was a highly educated man in the 1300's ...

When Pine Leaf's twin brother was killed by a member of the Blackfoot tribe, even though she was only a child, she vowed that she wou...

Not only did Emeline Pigott tend to the sick and wounded Confederate soldiers quartered across the creek from her parents' house on ...