Welcome to Women in European History

Welcome to my Women in European History blog!  I am Zachary Harris, teacher of social studies at the high school.  This blog was created for two basic reasons.  The first reason is that I feel women are largely ignored in most history classes.  For example, many people know that Henry VIII of England had six wives, but how many people can name them and say anything about them?  I hope to remedy this truth in small parts.  The second reason this blog was created is because I will take some extra credit questions for my exams from the individual blogs.  There will be roughly 20 blogs per semester and five tests.  Thus, each of these tests will have one question from each of the four blogs posted in the time period of the test.  Each blog will consist of the following: one image of the subject of the post, a little information about the woman mentioned, 2 hyperlinks to find more information (test questions may come from these linked sites), and a sneak peak image of the woman that will be covered in the next post.

Thus, this post will end with a sneak preview of the next post's topic: