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:
- “Yellow Journalism.” Encyclopædia Britannica, www.britannica.com/topic/yellow-journalism. Accessed 31 Jul. 2023.
- Norwood, Arlisha and Mariana Brandman. "Nellie Bly." National Women's History Museum. National Women's History Museum, 2022. Accessed 31 Jul. 2023.
- “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.
- “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/.
- 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].
- “Emergence of Public Hospitals: 1860 –1930.” America’s Essential Hospitals, essentialhospitals.org/about/emergence-of-public-hospitals-1860-1930/. Accessed 31 Jul. 2023.
- “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.