TBT: Super Awesome People™ Currently Making History. I’m still fixated on the (pending) results of the 2020 United States election (who isn’t?), so I’m saving… Read More »TBT: History-Making Firsts in the 2020 U.S. Election
TBT: Super Awesome People™ in History. In the United States*, it is a scary time to be in the LGBTQ+ community. Although advances in LGBTQ+… Read More »TBT: A Photographic History of Men in Love
TBT: Super Awesome People™ in History. In 1896, Boston socialite Harriet Lawrence Hemenway recruited her cousin Minna B. Hall to join her in hosting wealthy,… Read More »TBT: “Bird Ladies” Harriet Lawrence Hemenway and Minna B. Hall
TBT: Super Awesome People™ in History. On October 14, 1947, U.S. Air Force Captain and test pilot Chuck Yeager became the first person to break… Read More »TBT: 73 Years Ago, Chuck Yeager Flew Faster Than Sound
In fourteen hundred ninety-two Columbus sailed the ocean blue. ………. Read the updated version of the classic children’s poem, as revised (and with much greater… Read More »Happy Indigenous Peoples’ Day!
TBT: Super Awesome People™ in History. The CDC may have warned against traditional Halloween celebrations this year, but whether you’re hosting a virtual Halloween party… Read More »TBT: Historical Halloween Costume Ideas (Without Cultural Appropriation)
TBT: Super Awesome People™ in History. Super Awesome People™ has made it to 100 posts (woo!), and I want to commemorate the occasion! Every Thursday,… Read More »TBT: Super Awesome People™ In History: Top 100 Lists
TBT: Super Awesome People™ in History. “Only within the moment of time represented by the present century has one species—man—acquired significant power to alter the… Read More »TBT: 58 Years Ago, “Silent Spring” Energized the Environmental Movement
When I learned that Ruth Bader Ginsburg had died on Friday, I sat on the floor and cried. Then I drank a margarita and ate… Read More »The Notorious RBG: May Her Memory Be For a Blessing
TBT: Super Awesome People™ in History. In grade school, I was surprised to learn that the United States wasn’t the first country where women won… Read More »TBT: 127 Years Ago, New Zealand Women Won the Right to Vote
TBT: Super Awesome People™ in History. I’ve lived in New York City for more than 15 years, but it’s only recently that I learned about… Read More »TBT: The Lost Seneca Village of NYC
TBT: Super Awesome People™ in History. Recently, the University of Pennsylvania Libraries launched the newly-digitized (and publicly accessible) archives of Marian Anderson, the famed contralto… Read More »TBT: Marian Anderson, Famed Singer and Defiant Trailblazer
TBT: Super Awesome People™ in History. Out of all the Super Awesome People™ posts I’ve written so far, the TBT posts have been my favorite.… Read More »TBT: Quarantine Pastime—Transcribing History
TBT: Super Awesome People™ in History. “Savitribai Phule, the Mother of modern education. If you are an Indian woman who reads, you owe her. If… Read More »TBT: Savitribai Phule – India’s First Female Teacher
TBT: Super Awesome People™ in History. The first Bessie I read about was famed aviator Bessie Coleman. Then I discovered motorcyclist Bessie Stringfield and blues… Read More »TBT: Famous Bessies in American History
Historian and Boston College professor Heather Cox Richardson has kept me (and tens of thousands of others) sane this year. I don’t watch the news,… Read More »Heather Cox Richardson Keeps Us Sane
TBT: Super Awesome People™ in History. On August 6, 1926, 20-year-old Gertrude Ederle became the first woman to swim across the English Channel—and she did… Read More »TBT: First Woman to Swim Across the English Channel
TBT: Super Awesome People™ in History. The 2020 edition of Discovery Channel’s Shark Week starts August 9, and to continue this week’s animals theme (and… Read More »TBT: Dr. Eugenie Clark, the Shark Lady
TBT: Super Awesome People™ in History. I recently found out that the abolitionist Elijah Parish Lovejoy was an ancestor of a friend of mine. I… Read More »TBT: Abolitionist Elijah Lovejoy
TBT: Super Awesome People™ in History. After an incredibly sad week spent reading hundreds of obituaries of Americans who died of COVID-19 (and sharing their… Read More »TBT: The Father of Immunology
TBT: Super Awesome People™ in History. On April 1, 1884 Florence Aby Blanchfield was born in Shepherdstown, West Virginia, as the fourth of eight children.… Read More »TBT: First Female Army Officer
TBT: Super Awesome People™ in History. “I was trying to make people united and angry. I was known as the angriest man in the world,… Read More »TBT: Larry Kramer: Activist, Writer, Revolutionary
TBT: Super Awesome People™ in History. Like many people around the world, I first learned about the brilliant NASA engineer Mary Jackson in 2017 when… Read More »TBT: Mary Jackson, NASA’s First Black Female Engineer
As a white woman raised in the south, I was never taught about the history of Juneteenth, the “oldest nationally celebrated commemoration of the ending… Read More »TBT: The History of Juneteenth
TBT: Super Awesome People™ in History. Dr. Kathy Sullivan first made history in 1984, and on June 7, 2020, she did it again. Kathryn D.… Read More »TBT: From 140 Miles Above Earth to 7 Miles Under the Ocean
TBT: Super Awesome People™ in History. When it comes to American History, the United States has routinely failed to teach its citizens the unvarnished truth.… Read More »TBT: A People’s History of the United States
TBT: Super Awesome People™ in History. “Only when the last prisoner of conscience has been freed, when the last torture chamber has been closed, when… Read More »TBT: 59 Years Ago, Amnesty International Began
TBT: Super Awesome People™ in History. On May 21, 1881, Clara Barton and Adolphus Solomons founded the American National Red Cross, “an organization established to… Read More »TBT: 139 Years Ago, Clara Barton Founded the American Red Cross
TBT: Super Awesome People™ in History. In the mid-19th century, Ireland was caught in the midst of the Great Hunger, also known as the Irish… Read More »TBT: An Act of Kindness Repaid 173 Years Later
TBT: Super Awesome People™ in History. The Washington Post recently published a beautiful tribute to nurses who are risking their lives to help patients and… Read More »TBT: Shout Out to Nurses, Then and Now
TBT: Super Awesome People™ in History. Although the United States and Canada celebrate Labor/Labour Day on the first Monday in September, most of the world… Read More »TBT: The Laborers of the International Workers’ Day Movement
TBT: Super Awesome People™ in History. And now for something completely not pandemic-related. Earth Day celebrated its 50th anniversary on April 22, 2020. In 1970,… Read More »TBT: Nobel Prize-Winning African Environmental Hero
TBT: Super Awesome People™ in History. The Girl Scouts organization was founded in 1912 by Juliette Gordon Low as a way “to prepare girls to… Read More »TBT: Girl Scouts During the 1918 Influenza Pandemic