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World History

A Writer, A Witness, A Young Woman

Posted on March 26, 2015

In was in the month of March, in 1945, that Anne Frank, a 15 year old girl would perish in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. In the hiding place in Holland where she and her family had …

Posted in Arts, Women, World History

From the Factory Floor to the Dark Cosmos: This Week’s Profile of Women in History

Posted on March 12, 2015

Valentina Tereshkova (born 1937) of the USSR became the first woman in space when she was launched into orbit, alone, aboard Vostok 6, on 16 June, 1963. She was 26 years old. It would be …

Posted in Science, Women, World History
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