#OnThisDay, 8 Dec 1972, Whetu Tirikātene-Sullivan is sworn in as Minister of Tourism in Aotearoa / New Zealand. She's the first Māori woman to be a Cabinet minister.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #NZHistory #Histodons

#OnThisDay, 8 Dec 1972, Whetu Tirikātene-Sullivan is sworn in as Minister of Tourism in Aotearoa / New Zealand. She's the first Māori woman to be a Cabinet minister.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #NZHistory #Histodons

"Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge."

#OnThisDay, 7 Dec 1993, Toni Morrison gives her Nobel lecture, part of her acceptance of the Nobel prize in literature.

Watch her speech here: https://nobel-videocdn01.azureedge.net/video/lecture_1993_lit_morrison_98_496.mp4

#ReadMoreWomen #NobelWomen #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Histodons

"Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge."

#OnThisDay, 7 Dec 1993, Toni Morrison gives her Nobel lecture, part of her acceptance of the Nobel prize in literature.

Watch her speech here: https://nobel-videocdn01.azureedge.net/video/lecture_1993_lit_morrison_98_496.mp4

#ReadMoreWomen #NobelWomen #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Histodons

"Most women think politics aren't lady-like. Well, I'm no lady. I'm a human being."

#OnThisDay, 6 Dec 1921, Agnes Macphail, wins a seat in the Canadian House of Commons. She was the first woman to be a Canadian MP.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #CanadianHistory #Histodons

"Most women think politics aren't lady-like. Well, I'm no lady. I'm a human being."

#OnThisDay, 6 Dec 1921, Agnes Macphail, wins a seat in the Canadian House of Commons. She was the first woman to be a Canadian MP.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #CanadianHistory #Histodons

Montana State University–Bozeman:
An Arc of Landscape, Labor, and Learning

Montana State University–Bozeman sits like a slow script written across the Gallatin Valley — the long hand of an institution that began as humble instruction and grew, over a century, into one of Montana’s principal engines of knowledge, culture, and civic...for further reading see link below.

Web:
https://www.bigskytreasure.org/history/institutions#h.5cnzgndscems

#WorldHistory
#USHistory
#MTHistory
#Montana
#History
#BSTS
#Fourosix
#MontanaToday
#histodons

Montana State University–Bozeman:
An Arc of Landscape, Labor, and Learning

Montana State University–Bozeman sits like a slow script written across the Gallatin Valley — the long hand of an institution that began as humble instruction and grew, over a century, into one of Montana’s principal engines of knowledge, culture, and civic...for further reading see link below.

Web:
https://www.bigskytreasure.org/history/institutions#h.5cnzgndscems

#WorldHistory
#USHistory
#MTHistory
#Montana
#History
#BSTS
#Fourosix
#MontanaToday
#histodons

“I was elected by the women of Ireland, who instead of rocking the cradle, rocked the system.”

#OnThisDay, 3 Dec 1990, Mary Robinson was inaugurated as the first woman to be President of the Republic of Ireland.

"In a society where the rights and potential of women are constrained, no man can be truly free. He may have power, but he will not have freedom."

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #IrishHistory #Histodons

“I was elected by the women of Ireland, who instead of rocking the cradle, rocked the system.”

#OnThisDay, 3 Dec 1990, Mary Robinson was inaugurated as the first woman to be President of the Republic of Ireland.

"In a society where the rights and potential of women are constrained, no man can be truly free. He may have power, but he will not have freedom."

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #IrishHistory #Histodons

Pompey's Pillar:
A Stone Chronicle on the Yellowstone

There are places in the landscape that read like a slow, patient book — pages weathered by wind and hand, margins annotated by strangers across centuries. Pompey’s Pillar, that solitary sandstone monolith on the south bank of the Yellowstone River in south-central Montana, is...for further reading see link below.

Web:
https://www.bigskytreasure.org/history/places#h.djfmt01b72l1

#WorldHistory
#USHistory
#MTHistory
#Montana
#History
#BSTS
#Fourosix
#MontanaToday
#histodons

Pompey's Pillar:
A Stone Chronicle on the Yellowstone

There are places in the landscape that read like a slow, patient book — pages weathered by wind and hand, margins annotated by strangers across centuries. Pompey’s Pillar, that solitary sandstone monolith on the south bank of the Yellowstone River in south-central Montana, is...for further reading see link below.

Web:
https://www.bigskytreasure.org/history/places#h.djfmt01b72l1

#WorldHistory
#USHistory
#MTHistory
#Montana
#History
#BSTS
#Fourosix
#MontanaToday
#histodons