#WomensHistory

📜 New blog post! @claireelder.bsky.social explores the life of Marie Stewart, Countess of Mar, revealing a multifaceted portrait through her correspondence on domestic matters, legal affairs and religious affiliations womenshistoryscotland.org…. #WomensHistory #EarlyModernHistory

9/21/1917 — b. Phyllis Nicolson, English mathematician, physicist. Co-creator, #heatequation entitled the “Crank–Nicolson method”, a continuous solution u(x, t) is utilized to complete the second order partial differential equation #womenshistory #WomenInSTEM #MathSky #math #physics #thermodynamics

9/21/1855 — b. Etta Semple, American author, freethinker, #publishers, philanthropist, feminist. Novelist, newspaper editor, medical intuitive, atheist, radical, socialist, humanitarian. Founder, Kansas Freethought Assn; published the “Free Thought Vindicator” #womenshistory #womenwriters #WriterSky

9/21/1851 — b. Susan Macdowell Eakins, American artist. Photographer, painter; noted for her early works in #photography. A talented artist in her own right, her career was overshadowed by her husband, the more famous American artist, Thomas Eakins #womenshistory #womenartists #womensart #painters

Awesome call for papers: Women of Color and Politics 1945-Present Campaign managers, fundraisers, organizers, voter registration drivers, as well as candidates. #womenshistory @womenknowhistory.bsky.social

Wishing a happy 83rd birthday to Linda Perhacs, whose 1970 album Parallelograms ranks for me as one of the masterpieces of that incredibly rich era for folk music. Spin it up today and see what I mean! #WomenInMusic #WomensHistory #BookSky

Wishing a happy 94th birthday today to Usha Kehar Luthra, who spent decades building up systematic cervical and oral cancer screening in India, an Indian national cancer registry, and training programs for the nation's cytologists in and around publishing 180 papers. #WomenInSTEM #WomensHistory ⚕️

1998: Florence Griffith Joyner, American athlete (Olympic gold 100m, 200m, 4x100m relay 1988; WR 100m: 10.49; 200m: 21.34 1988), dies of an epileptic seizure at 38 #BlackHistory #WomensHistory

Pre-order ELUSIVE VICTORY, a gripping account of one of the most consequential political battles of the twentieth century. www.siupress.com/97808093… #History #FeministHistory #1970s #Reading #Books #UniversityPress #SpringfieldIL #Illinois #WomensHistory #theERA #ERA

7. She was protecting a professional sport women had only just begun building for themselves. #BillieJeanKing #BattleOfTheSexes #WomensHistory #TennisHistory #WomenInSports