Mary Olympic’s life at Katmai represents a subsistence lifestyle in Alaska that has endured for thousands of years and continues today. Her recollections illuminate the practice of reindeer herding from a time when very few other first-hand accounts exist.
In 1973, Missy Voigt and Marilyn Strack were hired as seasonal rangers at Muir Woods. Strack worked at Muir Woods for over two years, and she was one of the first disabled employees at the park.
1800s Irish woman who denounced a man who seduced, impregnated and abandoned her
As an intersectional feminist academic and activist, Helena Liu set up Disorient, a website providing important learning, teaching and research resources on feminisms, intersectionality and activisms.
In May of 1854, 90-year-old Elizabeth Mason, a “free woman of color” from Campbell County, Virginia, appeared before a local Justice of the Peace to apply for a military widow’s pension.
Grace Sherwood was the defendant in colonial Virginia‘s most notorious witch trial, which took place in Princess Anne County in 1706.
Yosemite National Park Park Ranger 1926-1927
Kitty Foster was a free African American woman who owned property just south of the University of Virginia, the site of which has been memorialized by the school.
Lucy Burwell is best known for rejecting the fervent and sometimes menacing courtship of Governor Sir Francis Nicholson, contributing to a petition against Nicholson and Queen Anne ultimately removing him from office.
Sally Hemings was an enslaved house servant owned by Thomas Jefferson, who is believed to have fathered at least six of Hemings’s children.