FDR was lukewarm on Labor until Frances Perkins masterminded Social Security, minimum wage, workmen’s comp. . .  You’re welcome!

Track and field, golf, baseball, basketball. . . Was there anything Babe Didrikson didn’t play? Yes, she said. Dolls.

Stepping into Old Growth, Joan Maloof felt the forest. Now she is set on saving “the ancients.”

Broadway’s biggest hit celebrates the Founding Father, but without Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton, there would have been no “Hamilton.”

From “behind the curtain of my mind,” the fabulous Belle da Costa Greene masterminded the Morgan Library.

Her stirring poem about a statue was almost forgotten. Today the statue still speaks in the voice of Emma Lazarus.

When Grace Hopper met those beastly first computers, they spoke only in numbers. “Grandma COBOL” soon taught them English.

Few battles had been so mismatched. A billionaire tycoon vs. a woman with a pen. The winner?

When the D.A.R. turned Marian Anderson away, Eleanor Roosevelt and friends found a better venue.

Long before journalists were “embedded,” Nellie Bly amazed readers from inside an asylum and by circling the globe — in 72 days.

Deaf, dumb, and blind, she lived “at sea in a dense fog.” And then her teacher came. (As seen in “The Miracle Worker.”)

How one woman changed the way people look at people.