
Missing Women and Feminist Economics
Posted by: Natalie Burclaff
Where have two million women gone and how can economists find them?
Posted in: Labor, Women's History
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Posted by: Natalie Burclaff
Where have two million women gone and how can economists find them?
Posted in: Labor, Women's History
Posted by: Nate Smith
St. Patrick is credited with banishing all snakes from Ireland, but did he?
Posted in: Heritage Months, Holidays, and Today in History, Science, Zoology
Posted by: Natalie Burclaff
Maggie L. Walker, Nannie Helen Burroughs, and Mary Church Terrell founded and led organizations with a focus on social activism through the development of personal relationships, mentoring, and collaborating to bring about social change, often with a goal of bringing more people into the middle class.
Posted in: African American History, Women's History
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
Have you heard about the Panic of 1907? If not this blog post is a good introduction.
Posted in: Business
Posted by: Nate Smith
Join the Science Reference Section in discovering digitized collections from the Library of Congress.
Posted in: History of Science and Technology
Posted by: Natalie Burclaff
Interested in how to do business research at the Library of Congress? Come to our Virtual Business Research Orientation on March 10, from 1-2 pm!
Posted in: Business
Posted by: Natalie Burclaff
Many early African American insurance companies focused on industrial insurance or burial insurance and employed people in the community to sell and administer insurance contracts. Explore our resources related to African American insurance industry, including founders like Aaron McDuffie Moore, John Merrick and Charles Clinton (C.C.) Spaulding.
Posted in: African American History, Business
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
Funeral homes have since the end of slavery, been an important business enterprise in the Black community – read a bit about that history.
Posted in: African American History, Business
Posted by: Nate Smith
African American chemists Alice Ball, Norbert Rillieux, Marie Maynard Daly, and Percy Julius made significant contributions to chemistry and helped shape the world we know today.
Posted in: African American History, Chemistry, Inventions, Science