Amazing Women In History

Julia Morgan combined engineering, design, and hands-on supervision to restore San Francisco’s Fairmont Hotel and turn William Randolph Hearst’s expanding plans into Hearst Castle.

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Nzinga fought Portuguese conquest through diplomacy, warfare, and shifting alliances. She offered refuge to people escaping slavery while also selling captives to Portuguese and Dutch traders.

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Aphra Behn earned her living writing plays for London audiences and published poetry under her own name. Before her literary success, she worked as a spy for Charles II.

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Virginia K. Newell gathered biographies, photographs, and research to document Black mathematicians’ achievements and the discrimination they faced.

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Louise Otto-Peters founded a newspaper that invited women to speak for themselves. When Saxony barred women from responsible editorship, she kept the paper going beyond its borders.

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