Susan La Flesche Picotte, the first Native American woman to earn a medical degree, is not a household name. Neither is Roger Arliner Young, the first African American woman to earn a Ph.D. in zoology, nor Vera Rubin, a physicist who discovered evidence...
At Monte Albán, a pre-Columbian archaeological site in Oaxaca, Mexico, the artist Anni Albers encountered ancient jewelry composed of stones and shells.
The artifacts inspired Albers to make jewelry out of ordinary materials. She believed the process of...