Tag: Pioneering

Did you know that Florence Nightingale pioneered the use of statistics in public health? That Marie Curie is still the only person to have won the Nobel Prize in

Gazing up at the stars, Benjamin Banneker longed to understand how and why things worked as they did. In a time when most black Americans were slaves, Banneker lived

A fascinating glimpse into the life of the first American woman in space, with gorgeous black-and-white and color photographs. Years before millions of Americans tuned in to watch her