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ships

Rediscovering Rome’s Female Merchants

As queens or captains, women deftly operated ships across the Red Sea and Mediterranean 2,000 years ago.
Sarah Durn March 17, 2022
paintings

6 Groundbreaking Women You Didn’t Learn About in History Class

Meet the painter, the pilot, the author, and other "firsts" who paved the way.
Sarah Durn March 15, 2022
female explorers

Returning to the Valley of the Assassins in the Footsteps of Explorer Freya Stark

British adventurer Elise Wortley is about to retrace a historic journey through Iran.
Sarah Durn March 14, 2022
pirates

9 Female Adventurers Who Journeyed Into the Unknown

From the Inupiat seamstress who killed polar bears to the Black motorcycle queen of Miami, these daring women lived life on their own terms.
Sarah Durn March 10, 2022
literature

14 Women Activists Whose Names You Should Know

These feminist editors, swimming suffragists, and renegade cooks reshaped the world.
Sarah Durn March 3, 2022
kickass women

A 105-Year-Old Tattoo Artist Is Teaching Girls to Ink for Independence

Filipino tribal tattooist Fang-od Oggay has built an economy on the back of skin art.
Lynzy Billing March 2, 2022
politics

The Forgotten Female Revolutionaries Behind Latin American Independence

Perhaps fiercest of all was Manuela Sáenz—spy, archivist, prankster, and companion of Simón Bolívar.
Sarah Durn March 1, 2022
ancient cults

The Most Lavish Mesopotamian Tomb Ever Found Belongs to a Woman

And her clothing tells an important story, says archeologist Rita Wright.
Sarah Durn February 10, 2022
royalty

The Forgotten Women Who Ruled the Medieval Middle East

A new book tells the tales of the queens of Jerusalem.
Sarah Durn January 25, 2022
pirates

Women Plundered and Swashbuckled With the Best (and Worst) of Them

The new book "Pirate Women" uncovers the stories of the women who sailed their way into history, cutlass in hand.
Sarah Durn January 4, 2022
pyramids

Remembering the Remarkable Queens Who Ruled Ancient Nubia

Scholar Solange Ashby is uncovering the once-revered, now little-remembered female leaders of the Kushite kingdoms.
Sarah Durn December 15, 2021
royalty

The Weekly Cross-Dressing Balls of 18th-Century Russian Royalty

How empresses used "metamorphosis" to show their male courtiers who’s the boss.
Sarah Durn October 4, 2021
architecture

Podcast: Josephine Baker’s Chateau

Join us for a daily celebration of the world’s most wondrous, unexpected, even strange places.
The Podcast Team July 19, 2021
kickass women

Two Women Are Trying to Make India’s Bad Words a Little Less Bad

Is it possible to take the misogyny and bigotry out of cursing?
Reem Khokhar March 25, 2021
miniatures

The Tiny Building That Pays Tribute to a Larger-Than-Life Civil Rights Leader

Daisy Lampkin's brick house is the newest addition to a beloved, shrunken cityscape in Pittsburgh.
Rossilynne Skena Culgan February 23, 2021
Video

Meet Ms. Showtime: Motorcyclist, Poet, Trailblazer

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lighthouses

Meet the United States’s Only Female Lighthouse Keeper

Sally Snowman belongs to a tradition of freedom, loneliness, and pride.
Natasha Frost July 17, 2020
Adrian, Michigan

Laura Smith Haviland Statue

This life-sized effigy commemorates the dedicated abolitionist and social reformer.