Soldier-Women of the America Civil War. A compilation of soldier women found online and in print. Monday, January 31, 2011. Both the Union and Confederate armies forbade the enlistment of women. Women soldiers of the Civil War therefore assumed masculine names, disguised themselves as men and hid the fact that they were female. More often than dramatic disclosures of this kind, the d.

Saturday, April 14, 2012. Knowing ED numbers will enable you to quickly access actual census pages.

Saturday, June 11, 2011. Women and the Jolly Roger. The Articles of Agreement that pirates swore an oath to uphold often included a ban on women aboard their ships. Historical records provide evidence that women did go to sea - sometimes as pirates. Perhaps because she wished to earn he.

Wild Women of the Wild West. Tuesday, April 5, 2011. As outrageous as they might have been, a closer look often reveals less glamour and more devotion to feminine ideals that one might expect. Henry Bullion had been an .

Saturday, May 31, 2014. Ladies of Note Paving the Way. The first female composer was Hildegard von Bingen. Later in the Middle-Ages, during the 12th and 13th centuries, there were female troubadours known as trobairitz. Known about these women, since many were anonymous. For the few whose names we do know, a lot of biographical details have been lost. What is interesting is that a number of. Where the singer and object are both suggested to be women.

Women found many guises in order to go to sea but often the most popular was as a seaman! Sunday, April 1, 2012. In the age of sail names such as Mary Lacy, Hannah Snell, or woman known as William Brown and many more were connected to cases of women disguising themselves as men and signing up as seamen to serve in the Royal or Merchant Navy. The History of the Female Shipwright. Tuesday, March 20, 2012. Monday, March 19, 2012.

These North Carolina women took the lead in the boycott of English goods, signing a formal pledge to support colonial resistance to the tea tax.

Just watch, all of you men. Thursday, March 22, 2012. Breaking into aviation was no easy chore for females at the turn of the century. They were turned away from flight training and even banned as passengers. The attitude was that they did not belong in the sky. The path for lady pilots was not an easy one. But with courage and perserverance these women paved the way and .

Monday, June 30, 2014. Sunday, June 29, 2014. Have taken him for Peeping Tom. Monday, June 23, 2014.

On land and sea, they traversed all corners of the world, opening doors for modern women of adventure. Saturday, March 31, 2012. She travelled extensively in South America, Asia and the South Pacific in the early 20th century, and published accounts of her journeys in the National Geographic. From 1907 to 1935, she wrote 21 articles.