Key People
Susan B. Anthony
Susan B. Anthony worked tirelessly for women’s suffrage (the right to vote) for more than fifty years. In 1877 she wrote the Anthony Amendment, which would eventually become the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution upon its ratification in 1920. Click here for the full biography.
Queen Victoria
Queen Victoria placed her stamp on most of the nineteenth century in England. She assumed the throne in 1837 and then ruled for an astonishing sixty-three years and seven months until her death in 1901. She presided over the expansion of a British Empire that spanned the globe, giving rise to the expression that “the sun never sets on the British Empire.” Click here for the full biography.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Eleanor Roosevelt cast a long shadow over the American political landscape, from First Lady as wife of President Franklin D. Roosevelt to human rights activist and delegate to the United Nations. Click here for the full biography.
Spotlight
Divine Birth and Coronation Inscriptions of Hatshepsut
Crowned the pharaoh of Egypt in approximately 1473 BCE, Queen Hatshepsut was an effective monarch who ruled over Egypt for more than twenty years. She was unique, however, in that she was depicted not as a queen but as a king; she used male titles, and images of her show a male ruler.
