Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History

Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History

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History's "worst" nun - Theresa A. Yugar

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History's "worst" nun - Theresa A. Yugar

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Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History

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  1. 1 History's "worst" nun - Theresa A. Yugar
  2. 2 History vs. Cleopatra - Alex Gendler
  3. 3 A day in the life of an ancient Egyptian doctor - Elizabeth Cox
  4. 4 The pharaoh that wouldn't be forgotten - Kate Green
  5. 5 What really happened during the Salem Witch Trials - Brian A. Pavlac
  6. 6 The genius of Marie Curie - Shohini Ghose
  7. 7 The legend of Annapurna, Hindu goddess of nourishment - Antara Raychaudhuri & Iseult Gillespie
  8. 8 The most successful pirate of all time - Dian Murray
  9. 9 Did the Amazons really exist? - Adrienne Mayor
  10. 10 Why should you read Virginia Woolf? - Iseult Gillespie
  11. 11 The Egyptian myth of Isis and the seven scorpions - Alex Gendler
  12. 12 A day in the life of a Mongolian queen - Anne F. Broadbridge
  13. 13 How one scientist averted a national health crisis - Andrea Tone
  14. 14 Ugly History: Witch Hunts - Brian A. Pavlac
  15. 15 The princess who rewrote history - Leonora Neville
  16. 16 The wicked wit of Jane Austen - Iseult Gillespie
  17. 17 The murder of ancient Alexandria's greatest scholar - Soraya Field Fiorio
  18. 18 The breathtaking courage of Harriet Tubman - Janell Hobson
  19. 19 Frida Kahlo: The woman behind the legend - Iseult Gillespie
  20. 20 The woman who stared at the sun - Alex Gendler
  21. 21 Why should you read Sylvia Plath? - Iseult Gillespie
  22. 22 From pacifist to spy: WWII’s surprising secret agent - Shrabani Basu
  23. 23 The meaning of life according to Simone de Beauvoir - Iseult Gillespie
  24. 24 Rosalind Franklin: DNA's unsung hero - Cláudio L. Guerra
  25. 25 Ugly History: Japanese American incarceration camps - Densho
  26. 26 A day in the life of an Aztec midwife - Kay Read
  27. 27 How one journalist risked her life to hold murderers accountable - Christina Greer
  28. 28 How one person saved over 2,000 children from the Nazis - Iseult Gillespie
  29. 29 Who were Las Mariposas, and why were they murdered? - Lisa Krause
  30. 30 Who was the world's first author? - Soraya Field Fiorio
  31. 31 The contributions of female explorers - Courtney Stephens
  32. 32 The hidden life of Rosa Parks - Riché D. Richardson
  33. 33 The historic women’s suffrage march on Washington - Michelle Mehrtens
  34. 34 How to see more and care less: The art of Georgia O'Keeffe - Iseult Gillespie
  35. 35 Why should you read Flannery O’Connor? - Iseult Gillespie
  36. 36 NASA’s first software engineer: Margaret Hamilton - Matt Porter & Margaret Hamilton
  37. 37 The electrifying speeches of Sojourner Truth - Daina Ramey Berry
  38. 38 How one scientist took on the chemical industry - Mark Lytle
  39. 39 Why should you read sci-fi superstar Octavia E. Butler? - Ayana Jamieson and Moya Bailey

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