“I will always be somebody.” This assertion, a startling one from a nineteenth-century woman, drove the life of Dr. Mary Edwards Walker, the only American w

2014 Amelia Bloomer list The Best Children's Books of the Year 2014, Bank Street College The story of Mary Edwards Walker, the doctor and women's rights activis

Highlights the life and accomplishments of the woman who earned a medical degree and volunteered her services during the Civil War, earning her a Medal of Honor

A suffragist who wore pants. This is just the simplest of ways Dr. Mary Walker is recognized in the fields of literature, feminist and gender studies, history,