Historic American Women

1754-1832Mary Ludwig Hays McCauley is generally considered to be Molly Pitcher who fought with her husband at the Revolutionary War…

1932-1963Sylvia Plath was a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet known for her works “The Colossus and Other Poems” and “Ariel.” She helped…

1927-2002Patsy Takemoto Mink was a long-serving member of the U.S. House of Representatives and the first woman of color and…

1933-2012Elinor Ostrom was a political scientist and the only woman to win the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences. Her work…

1818-1889Maria Mitchell was the country’s first female professional astronomer. In 1847, she discovered a comet that was named after her.…

1865-1951Mary White Ovington was a social reformer. She helped establish settlement houses in Brooklyn and came to focus on racial…

1586-1659Lady Deborah Moody was a colonial settler. She led a group of religious dissenters to found the town of Gravesend…

1871-1961Anne Carroll Moore was a librarian that pioneered the creation of children’s libraries. At the Pratt Institute and later the…

1814-1902Esther Hobart Morris was a women’s rights advocate. She is credited with spurring the Wyoming legislature to take up the…

1860-1961Anna Mary Robertson Moses, also known as 'Grandma Moses,' was a folk artist who began painting at age 78. Portraying…

1793-1880Lucretia Mott was a leader in the abolition movement. Mott also helped organize the Seneca Falls convention, sparking the women’s…

1700-1763Mary Musgrove served as an intermediary between the Creek Indians and Georgia colonists. Partly of Creek ancestry, she worked to…