In 1893, at the Columbian Exposition in Chicago, many women and men were invited to address an event called the Parliament of the World’s Religions. Mrs. Laura Ormiston Chant was among those invited to participate. She was...
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Julia Ward Howe was, by 1893, a “grey eminence” in both popular culture and the...
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She was famous as a hiker in the 1950s and 1960s, and a bit of a media darling. She was a...
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This essay was published as “Chapter VIII: The Social Use of the Post-Graduate Mother”...
Read MoreFor the entire text, see: Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision MR. JUSTICE STEWART, concurring. In 1963, this Court, in Ferguson v. Skrupa, 372 U.S. 726 , purported to sound the death knell for the doctrine of substantive due...
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