In the mid-1970s, Linnda Caporael was a college student facing a seemingly mundane decision. A science major at U.C. Santa Barbara, she needed a humanities course to graduate. The course she chose, on women in American history, came with a term paper, and she had to pick a topic. Caporael’s first choice—Lydia Wardell, a Quaker
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