#OnThisDay in #history - in 1862, Ida B. Wells was born into #slavery in Mississippi. Later, she enrolled in Shaw College (now Rust College), where her father was a trustee. She moved to Tennessee where she taught, attended uni, & fought segregationist policies. After a friend was lynched, she began to investigate lynchings and publishing her findings in pamphlets such as Southern Horrors and The Red Record. She was politically active in Chicago & left a legacy. #OTD#histodons@histodons#USA
@historyshapes@histodons@philosophy My default is to be very sceptical about any quotation attributed to famous people, and even more those from the ancient world.
Like many early automobile companies, Anderson Electric Car Company, founded in 1907, had long been a carriage & buggy company prior. It chose to produce electric cars not gas pwrd.
"Cleaner" Electrics, like the Detroit Electric here in Nov. 1917, were often marketed to upper class women (as avoid the chauffer) & during WWI w/ a "be patriotic" angle.
Read about @Wikipedia drive to de-orphan pages, found lists & clicked on women's names. Went down fascinating historical rabbit holes, connected them to other pgs & did some research to improve them. A short🧵@histodons Ercilia Pepín 1886–1939 Dominican Republic teacher, equal rights activist from political family, teacher@ 14. Feminist believed education liberated women. 1916 US invaded DR key player in women's resistance movement #JuntaDeDamas using 🇩🇴 as rallying point https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ercilia_Pep%C3%ADn
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In 1924, Lois Suckling became 1st woman in #NewZealand registered as optometrist, trained by husband as no courses in country at time. Had 5 kids, husband ill with degenerative disease so ran their opticians practice by herself in 1930s. 1936 set up 1st NZ family planning organisation to "mitigate the evils of ill-health & poverty". Moved to UK after husband's death & worked as #optician & travelled widely. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophia_Lois_Suckling
@histodons Sophia Steinbrenner née Minch 1854-1933 president of Kinsman Transit Great Lakes shipping fleet. 1905 inherited business from mother. Personally directed movement of vessels. 1913 @ desk for 3 days straight until all ships accounted 4 in storm which sank 14 vessels. Found images of “Sophia Minch” schooner named after her but no pictures of Sophia herself…. yet. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophia_Steinbrenner@lessanspages
On this day in 1751, Mary Buggey Purcell died aged 25. See this and other gravestone inscriptions from Muckalee old graveyard, Co. Kilkenny, in the Journals: https://bit.ly/purc1751
@bibliolater@histodon@histodons@science Was excited about this until I saw it was the same article I’d seen from 2021, an absolute age in the incredibly fast-moving world of population genetic. Looking forward to new findings!
CBI Image of the Day. Mathematician & pioneering programmer Ida Rhodes in 1959, at NBS (there from 1940 to' 71). Early '50s, she co-designed C-10 language w/ Betty Holberton for the UNIVAC & led in computer Russian language translation.
CBI holds the Frances E. Holberton (Betty Holberton) Papers, one of our standout collections on women in computing/software.
PARUTION | Le numéro 8 de Frontière.s vient de paraître !
📘 Aux frontières des espèces/The edges of species
👥 Sous la direction de Jérémy Clément et Mathieu Engerbeaud
On this day in 1824, Michael O'Grady died aged 60. See this and other gravestone inscriptions from Kiltenanlea, Co. Clare, in the Journals: https://bit.ly/ogrady1824
Re-sharing for the weekend crowd. The official link to our lovely #OpenAccess collection, 'Minoritised Languages and Travel' in the Modern Languages Open journal.
This is a collection of 5 essays + introduction that explore frictions between traveller and travelee as well as the inherent instability of social, cultural and language hierarchies.