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Was the USS Monitor the most revolutionary technological development of the American Civil War?

Lores Bonney: Australian Female Pilot

Whether circumnavigating Australia, flying from Brisbane to London, or from Brisbane to Cape Town, Lores Bonney heard variations on the same theme: 'This is no place for a woman.' By 1937, she had proved all the naysayers wrong.

Annie Oakley

Tokyo Rose: They Called Her a Traitor

WOMEN'S RIGHTS

Seneca Falls Convention: First Women's Rights Convention
More than one hundred and fifty years ago the people attending the first Women's Rights Convention adopted the radical proposition that "all men and women are created equal."

Suffragists Storm Over Washington D.C. in 1917

WOMEN & EXPEDITIONS

Sacagawea: Assisted the Lewis and Clark Expedition
Details of her life remain sketchy, and the time and place of her death are still debated, but the young Indian woman who assisted Meriwether Lewis and William Clark on their great journey west has a secure place in history.

Marie Dorion and The Astoria Expedition

WOMEN & AVIATION

Amelia Earhart
A tomboy who defied early-20th-century conventions, Earhart successfully crusaded for women pilots' place in the sky.

	Hanna Reitsch: Hitler's Female Test Pilot
	Amy Johnson: Pioneer Aviator
	Jerrie Mock: Record-Breaking American Female Pilot
	Harriet Quimby: First Licensed U.S. Woman Pilot
	Lores Bonney: Australian Female Pilot
	Nancy Harkness Love: Female Pilot and First to Fly for the U.S. Military
	Patricia Graham: Australian Female Pilot

WOMEN & MILITARY

Nancy Harkness Love: Female Pilot and First to Fly for the U.S. Military
Nancy Harkness Love proved her mettle in the air and gained recognition for women pilots in a man's world.

	Hundred Years' War: Joan of Arc and the Siege of Orléans
	Boudica: Celtic War Queen Who Challenged Rome
	Madame Loreta Janeta Velazquez: Heroine or Hoaxer?
	Napoleonic Wars: Women at Waterloo
	Nadezhda Durova: Russian Cavalry Maiden in the Napoleonic Wars
	The Women's Air Raid Defense: Protecting the Hawaiian Islands
	World War II: Women Spies of the OSS

WOMEN & AMERICA'S WEST

Annie Oakley
Annie Oakley was no Westerner, but her peerless shooting and style made her the western woman.

	A Lady's Life in the Gold Rush
	Nellie Cashman: Female Miner, Prospector and Philanthropist
	Fannie Sperry Made the Ride of Her Life
	Wild Women of the West
	Mary Fields: Female Pioneer in Montana
	Murder and Scandal in New Mexico: The Case of Ada Hulmes
	Apache Captives' Ordeal
	Death at Summit Springs: Susanna Alderdice and the Cheyennes

WOMEN & ESPIONAGE

Mildred Elizabeth Sisk: American-Born Axis Sally
American-born Axis Sally made propaganda broadcasts for Radio Berlin in Hitler's Germany, and paid the price for treason after the war.

	Elizabeth Van Lew's American Civil War Activities
	Amy Elizabeth Thorpe: WWII's Mata Hari
	Madame Loreta Janeta Velazquez: Heroine or Hoaxer?
	Tokyo Rose: They Called Her a Traitor
	World War II: Women Spies of the OSS

CIVIL WAR NURSES

Northern Volunteer Nurses of America's Civil War
A cadre of dedicated Northern women from all walks of life traveled to the charnel houses of the Civil War to care for the sick and wounded.

FOX SISTERS

The Fox Sisters: Spiritualism's Unlikely Founders
Out of the pranks of precocious sisters in upstate New York in 1847 grew a religious and social movement that swept across America. Often associated with abolition, suffrage and the brotherhood of all souls, spiritualism continued to evolve and flourish through the 20th century.

MARY BOLEYN

Mary Boleyn
Mary Boleyn was Henry VIII's mistress before he married her younger sister, Anne, but she survived Anne's downfall.

ELIZABETH I

Elizabeth I: The Reality Behind the Mask
Elizabeth I was the first English Queen to lend her name to an entire age. But in the half-century known for its pageantry and glamour, things were not always as they seemed.

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