Author: Patricia Schroeder
Patricia Schroeder served in the U.S. House of Representatives for Colorado from 1973 to 1997, where she became the first woman to serve on the House Armed Services Committee, among many other accomplishments. She has also taught at Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. This article is transcribed from her remarks at the Council for Secular Humanism/Center for Inquiry conference “Moving Secularism Forward” in Orlando, Florida, delivered on March 3, 2012.
Saddle Up, Progressives!
Happy Women’s History Month to all of us. Let me just give you one historical fact: we all know about Paul Revere, but I bet you don’t know about the Ludington sisters. Paul Revere rode his horse through Boston, but the Ludington sisters covered the entire damn state of Connecticut, and no one wrote a …