From Women You Should Know: "In our hour of need, women have for centuries been part of the fight against some of the greatest threats to human health. Here are six disease fighters whose research played a pivotal role in leading humanity out of past epidemics." Among them, a CRISPR technology pioneer who just converted her lab facilities for the purpose of emergency viral testing against COVID-19.

Katherine Milhous (1894-1977), an American artist, award-winning illustrator, writer, and women’s suffrage advocate, designed this postcard in1915, when she was just 21 years old. It highlighted the hypocrisy of opposition to voting rights for women, and illustrated the struggle young women faced in a world that offered few professional opportunities.

July 28th was the birthday of Beatrix Potter, who introduced the world to her immortal creations in a letter to a sick child: “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 Peter.”

Strozzi was among the most published composers of songs of her time, and her music still evokes the liberating yearning of an era no longer medieval, not yet modern – an island of free, experimental humanity we are perhaps just now in a position to appreciate afresh.

A “billboard” was installed on the facade of a building at 438 West Main Street in Rochester, NY. It’s the second of 50 such stunning crocheted installations planned across the United States to celebrate some of the most courageous women from American history who refused to be silenced.

"My steady vexation with the sanitized, hole-filled, only-white-men-did-anything-important version of history I was fed in school boiled over, once again, in 2015 when, at age 43, I happened upon the story of another heroic “Midnight Rider”, 16-year-old Sybil Ludington."

"Unique among scientists, Rosalind Franklin is remembered for something that happened to her, at the expense of the magnificent things she actually did."

Equally famous for her campaign to bring war relief to the devastated French villages of the First World War as for her title as the first woman to unearth an ancient Hellenistic city, Harriet Boyd Hawes (1871-1945) showed how much Life can be stuffed into a life when intellectual curiosity is married to a deep and active love of humanity.

“Lydia wrote one of the earliest American historical novels, the first comprehensive history of American slavery, and the first comparative history of women. In addition, she edited the first American children’s magazine, compiled an early primer for the freed slaves, and published the first book designed for the elderly.” She is considered one of the earliest American women to earn a living from her writing.