Growing up we learn the names of many influential men of history - but what about the influential women?

Whether accomplished in math and science, arts and culture, athletics and sports - it’s time we start learning their names too.

This is The Gallery, a collection of stories of history’s most interesting gals.

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The year is 1887.1 You are a young woman looking to exercise her journalistic talent. And you are about to make history.

Join me for the story of Journalist Nellie Bly, who went undercover at a mental asylum in the 1880s to expose cruel treatment to patients.

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Sources:

1. “Yellow Journalism.” Encyclopædia Britannica, www.britannica.com/topic/yellow-journalism. Accessed 31 Jul. 2023.
2. Norwood, Arlisha and Mariana Brandman. "Nellie Bly." National Women's History Museum. National Women's History Museum, 2022. Accessed 31 Jul. 2023.
3. “History of Women in the Workforce.” Red Kap®, www.redkap.com/women-workforce-history.html#:~:text=After%20the%20Industrial%20Revolution%20in,that%20number%20increased%20to%2015%25. Accessed 31 Jul. 2023.
4. “She Went Undercover to Expose an Insane Asylum’s Horrors. Now Nellie Bly Is Getting Her Due.” The Washington Post, 28 July 2019, www.washingtonpost.com/history/2019/07/28/she-went-undercover-expose-an-insane-asylums-horrors-now-nellie-bly-is-getting-her-due/.
5. Ten Days in a Mad-House. Published with "Miscellaneous Sketches: Trying to be a Servant," and "Nellie Bly as a White Slave." By Nellie Bly, 1864-1922. New York: Ian L. Munro, Publisher, [1877].
6. “Emergence of Public Hospitals: 1860 –1930.” America’s Essential Hospitals, essentialhospitals.org/about/emergence-of-public-hospitals-1860-1930/. Accessed 31 Jul. 2023.
7. “Blackwell’s Island (Roosevelt Island), New York City (U.S. National Park Service).” National Parks Service, www.nps.gov/places/blackwell-s-island-new-york-city.htm. Accessed 1 Aug. 2023.