June 4

In 1917 on the 4th the first Pulitzer Prizes[i] were awarded and three women, Laura Elizabeth Richards[ii], Maude H. Elliot[iii], and Florence Hall, won a Pulitzer for their biography of Julia Ward Howe.
[i] At the same awards ceremony, Jean Adrien Antoine Jules Jusserand won the first Pulitzer for history for his book With Americans of Past and Present Days. Herbert Bayard Swope won the award for Journalism for his work in the New York World. Swope is believed to be the first journalist to use the term cold war.
[ii] In addition to being Richards’ mother and the subject an award-winning book, Julia Ward Howe also wrote the words to popular song The Battle Hymn of the Republic.
[iii] Laura Richards was her sister.