From a family fossil business to remarkable marine-reptile discoveries, follow Mary Anning’s skill, friendships and search for recognition on the Dorset coast.
From childhood lessons to the Heian court, follow Murasaki Shikibu’s learning, family life and the inner worlds of The Tale of Genji.
From Chicago workrooms to French airfields and American airshows, Bessie Coleman pursues flight and a wider path into aviation for Black students.
From lessons by letter to the 1843 Notes, follow Ada Lovelace’s mathematical work, collaboration with Babbage and imagination beyond arithmetic.
From a childhood search for schooling to Tuskegee classrooms and farm demonstrations, follow Carver’s work with plants, soil, art and shared knowledge.
From childhood books to convent scholarship and a defense of women's learning, follow Sor Juana's intellectual life in colonial New Spain.
From New Orleans streets to recording studios and world stages, follow Louis Armstrong’s music, collaborations, public voice and enduring recorded life.
Follow Mary Shelley from a house of writers to Frankenstein, later novels and the exacting work of preserving a literary life through loss and change.
Follow Chien-Shiung Wu from a girls’ school in China to the collaborative cobalt-60 experiment that overturned a trusted symmetry in physics.
From Bengali poems and river journeys to Santiniketan, the Nobel Prize and a letter of protest, follow Tagore’s search for a more open education.
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