Mar 30, 2023

Joanna Hiffernan, or Joanna Heffernan, has a lot of gaps in her recorded history; as you can tell from not even knowing the correct spelling of her last name. However, the parts of her life that we do know are inspiring and thought-provoking.

She was known as, The Woman in White, because she was wearing a white dress...

Mar 23, 2023

Ada Lovelace is an English mathematician and was called the First Tech Visionary by The New Yorker. She’s also been called the first computer programmer for writing an algorithm for a computing machine in the mid-1800s. 

Ada Lovelace, born as Augusta Ada Byron on December 10, 1815. She was born into privilege as...

Mar 16, 2023

Peggy Guggenheim was a self-described “art addict” who sought to distinguish herself from her business-oriented relatives and make her mark on the world through collecting and traveling in avant-garde circles. Peggy’s lived her life out loud. She wasn't shy about her promiscuous lifestyle, attempted...

Mar 9, 2023

In all of United States History, there has only been one woman to receive the Medal of Honor. Dr. Mary Edwards Walker is that woman. As a surgeon, women’s rights advocate, abolitionist, and spy, Walker became the first female U.S. Army surgeon during the Civil War. Her legacy has been celebrated across the country,...

Mar 2, 2023

Alice Lee Roosevelt was the first and only child born to Theodore Roosevelt and Alice Hathaway Lee. After her mother’s death, Alice, known as “Baby Lee,” lived with her aunt, Anna “Bamie” Roosevelt, while her father started a ranching venture in the Dakota Territory. Her father remarried and reentered...