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In telling the story of M. Carey Thomas, there is no getting around the fundamental fact that she was, resoundingly, a terrible person....

In one sense, the story of Lovenia Deconge Watson (b. 1933) is the story of thousands of bright young Black women, born in the South in...

Had Maria Montessori died in 1913 at age 43, at the height of her fame and insight, this would be a pretty straightforward article about...

In 1964, two publications announced the beginning of two roads out of the centuries-long quagmire represented by the Nature Versus...

"I don't know what to write to you, so I shall tell you a story about four little rabbits whose names were Flopsy, Mopsy, Cottontail and...

Humans have a profound genius for generating terrible ideas. Slavery. Theocratic government. But there is one particular idea we hung...

There is a lot of life left to live after one's children are out of the house. It might seem an obvious statement, but it was a fact that...

Many Hopes Lie Buried Here. These words, etched on the tomb of Inez Prosser (~1895-1934) express an entire constellation of grief and...

Every morning we wake up to a feast of assumptions. We assume that the place our sewage gets dumped is not the same place our drinking...

Sign Language is a grammarless series of bluntly defined iconic hand gestures. Until William Stokoe (1919-2000) published his...

Separate But Equal. Of all America's variously Orwellian brandings, few have wrought as much human suffering as those three words. It is...

What do you do with a gifted child? A child who learns new concepts three or four times faster than his contemporaries, often withdraws...

Midwife. Few words in the history of western medicine can evoke sudden and unequivocal academic tribal sentiment as that single term. To...

The long life of Elizabeth Blackwell (1821–1910), the world’s first woman to earn a medical degree, can be divided into two roughly equal...

In the 1860s and 1870s, women’s access to advanced astronomical instruction in the United States took a sudden and majestic turn for the...

She had founded first England’s and then Scotland’s first medical school for women, and been instrumental in the passing of the Medical...