Women's History: What We Weren't Taught

So much still to learn

This is Women’s History Month, which was first proclaimed by Congress in 1987. Before that, there was little recognition of the contribution women made to either world history or American history. I’ve been musing on what I learned or didn’t learn, of women’s history in U.S. public schools of the 1960s and 1970s. A few names off the top of my head could probably sum it up: