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Kohn family store, New Mexico Territory

How a Young Jewish Immigrant Widow Launched a Ranching Dynasty in New Mexico Territory

by Jim Winnerman3/10/20233/10/2023

After her husband’s untimely death, Yetta Kohn joined forces with her sons and daughter to run the family store, bank and ranch.

Ellen Gibson Hobart

Who Was the US Army’s First Female Chaplain? Hint: It Was During the Civil War

by John P. Deeben12/8/20222/27/2023

A nurse helps prepare a patient for an operation at the 7th Surgical Hospital, a mobile army surgical hospital (MASH), at Blackhorse base camp near Saigon in 1968. Nurses were among the earliest U.S. service members to arrive in Vietnam.

Nurses in Vietnam: Putting Themselves in Danger to Keep Men Alive

by Tom Edwards9/20/20222/27/2023

Woman at writing table

A View From the North: Union Women’s Wartime Memoirs

by Gary W. Gallagher8/31/20228/31/2022

Polly Adler with friends at lake Opatcong in New Jersey, 1923.

Who Was Polly Adler, the Celebrity Madame of the Roaring Twenties?

by Peter Carlson8/23/20222/27/2023

Commander Farrell, USS Constitution

Old Ironsides Gets its First Female Commanding Officer

by Dave Kindy8/22/20222/27/2023

Mott, Stanton and Anthony: The Friendship That Won Women the Right to Vote

by Sarah Richardson8/17/20228/19/2022

This Ukrainian Orphan Girl Became a World War II Hero

by Zita Ballinger Fletcher7/20/20222/27/2023

Book Review: ‘Only the Clothes on Her Back’

by Michelle Mastro6/22/20226/30/2022

How Abortion Became a Hot-Button Issue … in the 1800s

by Sarah Richardson6/20/20229/2/2022