Shirley Chisholm was born Shirley St. Hill on November 30, 1924, in Brooklyn, New York, to Caribbean parents. Her parents both worked two jobs and found raising the children at the same time hard on the family, so in November 1929 when Shirley turned five, she and her two sisters were sent to Barbados to…
Women in History- Dr. Mae Jemison
Dr. Mae Carol Jemison was born in Decatur, Alabama, on October 17, 1956, the youngest of three children of Charlie Jemison and Dorothy Jemison. The family moved to Chicago, when Jemison was three years old, to take advantage of the better educational and employment opportunities there. As a young girl growing up in Chicago she knew she…
Women in History- Dr. Virginia Apgar
Dr. Virginia Apgar was born on June 7, 1909 in Westfield, New Jersey. She graduated from Westfield High School in 1925, knowing that she wanted to be a doctor. Apgar graduated from Mount Holyoke College in 1929, where she studied zoology with minors in physiology and chemistry. In 1933, she graduated fourth in her class from Columbia University College of Physicians…
Celebrating Higgins Boats
On June 6, 1944, the Allied forces landed on the beaches of Normandy in LCVP boats (Landing Craft, Vehicle, Personnel, also known as Higgins boats) as part of Operation Overlord. This invasion would change the course of World War II and live on in our history as D-Day. With the 75th anniversary of D-Day upon…
Women in History-Sally Ride
Sally Kristen Ride was born May 26, 1951 in Los Angeles, California. Ride attended Portola Junior High and then Birmingham High School before graduating from the private Westlake School for Girls in Los Angeles on a scholarship. Ride attended Swarthmore College for three semesters, took physics courses at the University of California, Los Angeles, and then entered Stanford University as a junior, graduating with…
Women in History- Amelia Earhart
Amelia Earhart was the daughter of Samuel "Edwin" Stanton Earhart and Amelia "Amy" Earhart. She was born in Atchison, Kansas, on July 24, 1897, in the home of her maternal grandfather, Alfred Gideon Otis. Her sister Grace Earhart, was born two years later. The sisters’ upbringing was unconventional since Amy Earhart did not believe in molding her children…
140 Year Anniversary of the Standing Bear v. Crook Decision
You may have heard of Wounded Knee, Custer's Last Stand, and the Trail of Tears, but there is an important part of Native American history that often goes overlooked--the Trial of Ponca Chief Standing Bear. Though it may seem inconceivable now, prior to 1879, the nature of Native Americans was in dispute, at least according…
Women in History – Nellie Bly
Elizabeth Jane Cochran, better known by her pen name, Nellie Bly, was born on May 5, 1864 in Cochran’s Mills, Pennsylvania. She left school in 1871 due to the lack of funds after her father died. In 1880, her mother moved the family to Pittsburgh for better job opportunities. It was here that Elizabeth would…
Library of Congress was established 219 years ago!
The Library of Congress (LOC) is the research library that officially serves the United States Congress and is considered to be unofficially the national library of the United States. It is the oldest federal cultural institution in the United States and is housed in three buildings on Capital Hill in Washington, D.C.: the Thomas Jefferson…
Thomas Jefferson’s 276th Birthday!
Thomas Jefferson was born on April 13, 1743, to Peter Jefferson and Jane Randolph, and was the third of ten children. Peter Jefferson was a self-taught man but wanted his sons to have a formal education, and enrolled Thomas and his brother, Randolph, in school when Thomas was 5. By 1752, at the age of…
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