In this post on the Teaching with the Library blog, 
Michael Apfeldorf
introduces us to the work of prominent female chemist Ellen Swallow Richards around the turn of the twentieth century. Richards was the first woman to be admitted to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a pioneer in the field of sanitary engineering and “domestic science”. Click the link to learn more and to discover Michael's ideas for a primary source analysis activity.
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