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Entries by Kate Kelly from 09/2012

First American Woman to Build a Cosmetics Empire: Harriet Hubbard Ayer

| Posted 09.17.2012 | Books
Read More: Women Entrepreneurs, Cosmetics Empire, History Press, Annette Blaugrund, Book, Harriet Hubbard Ayer, Books News

Though Rubinstein and Arden seem like they must have been business pioneers, they were not the first American woman to build and run a beauty empire.

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The Quack's Daughter: A True Story About the Private Life of a Victorian College Girl

| Posted 09.24.2012 | Books
Read More: 19th Century College Women, 19th Century Women, Victorian College, Greta Nettleton, Victorian College Girl, Books News

Sometimes an author doesn't have to choose a subject; sometimes the subject chooses the author. This was the case for author and historian Greta Nettleton.

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Has the Kennedy Center Ignored Latinos?

| Posted 09.26.2012 | Arts
Read More: Celia Cruz, Hispanic Heritage, Latinos, Jose Ferrer, Joan Baez, Kennedy Center, Kennedy Center Latinos, Kennedy Center Honors, Arts News

Only two artists of Hispanic descent have been honored in the last 35 years -- Spanish tenor and conductor Placido Domingo (2000) and actress, singer, and dancer Chita Rivera (2002).

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