When there’s a will, there’s a way. And for Zelia Nuttall, a lack of a college education and a professorship were not going to stand in the way of what she wanted. As a single mother in the late 1800s ...

Grindle (Bureaucrats, Politicians, and Peasants in Mexico), a professor of international development at Harvard, delivers an insightful and accessible biography of Zelia Nuttall (1857–1933), a pioneer ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Emiliano Rodriguez is an educator at the Milwaukee Public Museum. Recently, he was sitting on the first floor of the museum, behind a table filled with photos of anthropologist Zelia Nuttall, ...

An illustration of the Aztec calendar stone surrounds a young portrait of anthropologist Zelia Nuttall. “Mrs. Nuttall’s investigations of the Mexican calendar appear to furnish for the first time a ...