WOMENS HISTORY MONTH

March marks Women’s History Month, and the world has spent the past few weeks highlighting and remembering some of the most famous achievements by women throughout the course of history.

Jacqueline Cochran was a record-breaking aviatrix, entrepreneur and political mover and shaker who was close enough with President Lindon B. Johnson he refused to let her call him Mr. President.

While the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame is known for celebrating excellence in music history, it’s not know for celebrating musicians of a certain category: Women.

The title of the most-decorated athlete ever belongs to United States swimmer Michael Phelps, who won 28 medals competing in five different Summer Olympics from 2000 to 2016. But there are so many highly decorated female Olympians, too.

For those who don’t know, Tuesday is International Women’s Day, a day that recognizes and upholds the achievements of women around the world, as well as promotes gender equality.

Sandra Day O’Connor not only had a degree from one of the most prestigious universities in the world -- Stanford University in California -- but also a law degree she earned from the same institution in just two years.

Line judge Sarah Thomas #53 looks on before Super Bowl LV between the Kansas City Chiefs and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Last month’s Super Bowl LV in Tampa proved to serve as another breakthrough for women in sports, in a stretch of months that’s been full of them. Locust and Javadifar followed in the footsteps of Katie Sowers, an assistant for the San Francisco 49ers who became the first woman to coach in a Super Bowl last year. They’re now added to the list of other women who have broken barriers in sports recently. In January, the Boston Red Sox hired Bianca Smith as a minor league coach, becoming the first Black woman to coach in professional baseball.

This exhibit was part of the colleges observation of LGBTQIA+ History Month. Its absolutely student-created and student-led, Amelia Serafine, history instructor, said Oct. 29. Another article from the One Archives Foundation in the exhibit explained National Coming Out Day, an international LGBTQIA+ holiday as part of LGBTQIA+ History Month, observed Oct. 11. It is American history the same way that African American history is American history. Serafine said with this college celebrating LGBTQIA+ History Month, more students who are part of the community may be more comfortable being themselves.