On July 19, 1848, over 300 women and men converged on the small town of Seneca Falls, New York, for what purported to be the first convention in the history of the nation to focus explicitly on women’s rights. Organized by prominent abolitionists Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, the Women’s Rights Convention is popularly…

How many statues of real women are in Central Park? Currently, the answer is none. There are twenty-three statues of men, including equestrian monuments of fourteenth-century Polish King Wladyslaw II Jagiello and early nineteenth-century Venezuelan Simón Bolívar. There is a statue of Balto, a Siberian Husky, and a bust of Irish-American cellist and composer Victor…