FRANCES PERKINS -- THE WOMAN WHO BROUGHT YOU THE WEEKEND
FDR was lukewarm on Labor until Frances Perkins masterminded Social Security, minimum wage, workmen’s comp. . . You’re welcome!
DIDRIKSON -- THE OTHER BABE
Track and field, golf, baseball, basketball. . . Was there anything Babe Didrikson didn’t play? Yes, she said. Dolls.
HAMILTON'S OTHER HALF
Broadway’s biggest hit celebrates the Founding Father, but without Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton, there would have been no “Hamilton.”
THE (BLACK) WOMAN WHO MANAGED MORGAN'S MILLIONS
From “behind the curtain of my mind,” the fabulous Belle da Costa Greene masterminded the Morgan Library.
EMMA LAZARUS -- GIVE ME YOUR TIRED, YOUR POOR. . .
Her stirring poem about a statue was almost forgotten. Today the statue still speaks in the voice of Emma Lazarus.
THE WOMAN WHO SPOKE TO COMPUTERS
When Grace Hopper met those beastly first computers, they spoke only in numbers. “Grandma COBOL” soon taught them English.
IDA TARBELL -- THE WOMAN WHO TOOK ON ROCKEFELLER
Few battles had been so mismatched. A billionaire tycoon vs. a woman with a pen. The winner?
MARIAN ANDERSON AND THE CONCERT THAT STIRRED AMERICA
When the D.A.R. turned Marian Anderson away, Eleanor Roosevelt and friends found a better venue.
NELLIE ON THE FLY
Long before journalists were “embedded,” Nellie Bly amazed readers from inside an asylum and by circling the globe — in 72 days.
HELEN KELLER'S MOMENT
Deaf, dumb, and blind, she lived “at sea in a dense fog.” And then her teacher came. (As seen in “The Miracle Worker.”)
MARGARET MEAD AND HUMANITY'S COMING OF AGE
How one woman changed the way people look at people.