Category: Women in History

Claraissa Harloew Barton was born in Oxford, Massachusetts on Christmas Day, 1821. She was known as the Angel of the Battlefield during the Civil War (1861-1865) She established several free schools in New Jersey and during the Civil War she organized volunteers to distribute supplies to battlefields, even driving a four-mule wagon team herself. After the war, she set up a bureau of records in Washington D.C. to search for missing soldiers and identified and marked 12,000 graves at the Nati...
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Victoria, England's longest reigning Queen, was born in 1819, in Kensington Palace, London. She was the only child of Edward, duke of Kent and Mary Louisa Victoria. She succeeded her uncle Willaim IV to the throne when he died without an heir. Queen Victoria was a debvoted wife, mother and queen and became a living symbol of the greatness of the Brisish Empire at the height of it's glory. Her reign became known as the Victorian Age, an era characterized by nationalism and a return to conse...
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You may not know her name but you have probably heard her words or even read them for yourself.She was born in New York City, the daughter of a wealthy family. Growing up she was surrounded by literature and fine art. Her first work, Admetus and other peoms and was inscribed to her mentor, Ralph Waldo Emerson and published in 1866 when she was 17. Angered by the persecution of Russian Jews, Emma became an ardent Zionist and in 1882 published Song of a Semite, which was a militant call to arms. T...
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