Major General Mari K. Eder, a retired Army major general, knows quite a bit about being in extraordinary circumstances. A historian, she also focuses on telling the stories of “ordinary women” who have also found themselves in extraordinary circumstances

Major General Mari K. Eder, a retired Army major general, knows quite a bit about being in extraordinary circumstances. A historian, she also focuses on telling the stories of “ordinary women” who have also found themselves in extraordinary circumstances and risen to meet the challenge throughout the 20th century.