If your page contains anything about women in history, whether famous, infamous or unknown, then this is the ring for you. Celebrate the role of women in the development of the human race. Reclaim the stories of women who are margin notes in the pages of history.
Members of the First Troop Philadelphia City Cavalry visited the Rosenbach Museum & Library on March 4, 2012, to honor their former member Joseph Gratz. Joseph Gratz (1785-1858), one of Rebecca's younger brothers, was what was once called a "clubbable" man; that is, he was socially adept (not boring) and thus suitable for club membership. In t...
Rebecca Gratz was born on March 4, 1781, six months before the Battle of Yorktown, and died during the Grant administration. She is commemorated for her good works, but today it seems fitting to honor her for her letter-writing. Rebecca's letters begin in 1798 and end in 1866, spanning the antebellum period and the Civil War. They provide a window ...
Maria Cecil Gist Gratz (Mrs. Benjamin Gratz) by Thomas Sully. Oil on canvas, Philadelphia, 1831. Courtesy of the Rosenbach Museum & Library. Gift of Maria Gratz Roberts. 2011.0023.00l. Photograph by Douglas A. Lockhard Last spring Judith Guston, the curator of the Rosenbach Museum & Library, asked me to write a blog post about a painting w...
Scarlett O'Hara Meets the Scarlet Letter: Herodias Long, Married at thirteen, Herodias Long combines these fictional characters in a real-life story from Puritan New England. Find information here about Herodias and a lineage society for her descendants.
Rebecca Gratz (1781-1869), the Philadelphia philanthropist, is remembered today for her many good works (including the first Hebrew Sunday School), but also for her beauty, the legend of her thwarted love for a man who was not Jewish and the persistent story that she was the inspiration for the character of Rebecca in Scott's novel Ivanhoe. The Gratz family has left a trove of more than 2,000 letters which have permitted me to investigate Rebecca's life and learn some interesting things about women's lives in antebellum America. My blog presents some of this material which I think may be of interest to others.
4DBios takes biographies into the 4th dimension, showing how people in the public eye keep repeating as such. It has thousands of biographies of both men and women in the arts and politics, and projects their ongoing life themes and what they are trying to accomplish here.
Goddess/Matriarchal spiritual systems, including Tantra, Paganism, Kundalini Yoga, and other body positive spiritual practices are untangled and explored with mystics, artists, scientists, poets and crazy wisdom teachers
Features the playlist to the UArts radio show that plays music sung by female singers and groups. Women That Rock Monday's 12pm-2pm only at http://www.uarts.edu/radio
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26 years of family research are reflected in my website. Well over 3,100 individuals documented in my master database and research continues! Frequent updates, research shared upon request, maps, wills, obits, bios, hundreds of identified photographs, useful links, genealogical tidbits for fellow researchers, holiday & celebration pages and much more....
Contains biographies of women, both past and present, who have earned their place in history. Also a time line of Womens Liberation. Suggestions for inclusion are welcomed.
