A  few years ago, Meneese Wall’s teenage daughter came home from school and complained about her history class. “She said, ‘Mom, what’s the deal? Everything we study is a bunch of dead White guys,’ ” Wall recalls during a recent video interview. “It was the same when I was her age, and it never dawned on me to question it. That’s why I love this younger generation. They question everything.”

Wall, 60, embarked on a cursory internet search — “women in American history” — which revealed an intriguing trove of images of old-fashioned ladies dressed in white. She learned that they were suffragists, women advocating for their right to vote, which they did by marching in the streets, lobbying, posting fliers, and even flying planes overhead to drop informational leaflets on the populace. Read the entire review here.