Learn about Nancy Harkness Love, the first female commercial pilot, founder of the Women's Flying Training Detachment and the Women's Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron (WAFS) during World War II, from USA Today bestselling author Heather B. Moore.

Learn about the amazing work of Phillis Wheatley, the mother of black literature in America.

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Carretta, Vincent. Phillis Wheatley: Biography of a Genius in Bondage. University of Georgia Press, 2011.

Wheatley, Phillis. ‘To a Lady and her Children, on the Death of her Son and their Brother’, 1773.

Hoose, Phillip M. We Were There Too. Phillip House, 2001.

Michals, Deborah. 2015. http://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/phillis-wheatley. Visited 4/16/2025

Waldstreicher, David. The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley. Recorded Books, 2023.

Learn about one of American's most influential founding mothers, socialite and patriot, Elizabeth Willing Powel.

1. A Portrait of Elizabeth Willing Powel: 1743-1830, David Walker Maxey, (Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 2006), 17-19.

2. Elizabeth Willing Powel. Mount Vernon. Viewed February 3, 2025.http://www.mountvernon.org/library/digitalhistory/digital-encyclopedia/article/elizabeth-willing-powel

3. "Elizabeth Willing Powel to Martha Hare, 25 April, 1814", Powel Family Papers, Historical Society of Pennsylvania.

4. Hass, Kimberly. Elizabeth Willing Powel: Philadelphia's Eighteenth Century Influencer. March 16, 2024.http://www. hiddencityphila.org/2024/03/elizabeth-willing-powel-philadelphias-18th-century-influencer/