In this article, Duncan Kuehn searches old newspapers to learn about Anna Jarvis’s hard work getting Mother’s Day established as a national holiday... (Read More)
On 22 March 1972, 50 years of hard work by women’s rights activists finally paid off when Congress passed the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)... (Read More)
An article about Antonia Coello Novello being appointed the first woman, and the first Hispanic, U.S. Surgeon General... (Read More)
In this article, Mary Harrell-Sesniak searches old newspapers to learn about the amazing life and accomplishments of the great inventor Thomas Edison... (Read More)
Introduction: Duncan Kuehn is a professional genealogist with over eight years of client experience. She has worked on several well-known projects, such as “Who Do You Think You Are?” and researching President Barack Obama’s ancestry. In this blog post, Duncan writes about the short-lived history of the first newspaper in America – which was... (Read More)
The U.S. reached a milestone on 12 January 1932 when Hattie W. Caraway became the first woman elected to the U.S. Senate, from the state of Arkansas... (Read More)
An article about the life and death of Theodore “Teddy” Roosevelt, the nation’s 26th president (1901-1909), who died in his sleep on 6 January 1919... (Read More)
In this article, Gena Philibert-Ortega writes about a pioneering woman in American history: Nellie Tayloe Ross, the first woman governor in the U.S... (Read More)
In this article, Duncan Kuehn searches old newspapers to learn about Thomas Edison and his invention of the electric light bulb that changed the world... (Read More)
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