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The Women Behind the First Black Music Magazine

In the late 19th century, "The Musical Messenger" had a message to send.
Ashawnta Jackson March 28, 2022
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Podcast: Kulning

Join us for a daily celebration of the world’s most wondrous, unexpected, even strange places.
The Podcast Team March 25, 2022
houses

The Black Woman Who Didn’t Just Open Doors—She Moved Them

Rosa Slade Gragg wouldn’t let a racist restrictive covenant stand in the way of the Detroit Association of Colored Women’s Clubs.
Carole Rosenblat March 24, 2022
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A New Monument Celebrates Nellie Bly's Undercover Reporting, Right Where It Happened

The Roosevelt Island artwork pays homage to her reporting, especially her inside look at a city asylum.
Jessica Leigh Hester March 23, 2022
List

14 Places Created By and For Women

From economic empowerment to professional wrestling, these spaces reflect the breadth of women’s experiences.
Michelle Cassidy March 21, 2022
bicycles

Annie Londonderry Barely Knew How to Ride a Bike When She Set Off Around the World

The record-setting 19th-century adventure was the result of a bet.
Tom Ward March 18, 2022
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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
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Miss La La Soared Through Europe as the Victorian Era's Best-Known Aerialist

As a Black woman, the daring circus performer also confronted the racial politics of the times.
Tom Ward March 17, 2022
medicine

Meet the Pioneering Midwives Who Helped Birth the Gulf South

Marie Grissot and Aimée Potens are just two of the women finally being written back into the history of childbirth.
Sharon Lurye March 16, 2022
volcanoes

Scientist Katia Krafft Stood on the Edge of Active Volcano Craters

The things Krafft and her husband learned getting up close to eruptions advanced volcanology and saved lives.
Tom Ward March 16, 2022
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The Wartime Spies Who Used Knitting as an Espionage Tool

Grandma was just making a sweater. Or was she?
Natalie Zarrelli March 16, 2022
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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
women

What Tookoolito Taught Explorers About the Arctic

In the mid-19th century, white ship captains relied on the Inuit woman and her husband to survive the unforgiving conditions of the Northwest Passage.
Tom Ward March 15, 2022
mountains

Don't Call Annie Smith Peck a Woman Mountain Climber

The 19th-century mountaineer and suffragist competed with men and women alike to find the apex of the Americas.
Michelle Cassidy March 14, 2022
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The Secret Maoist Chinese Operation to Conquer Malaria

A young medical researcher's idea led to a powerful weapon against the disease—and a Nobel Prize.
Jia-Chen Fu March 14, 2022
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Podcast: Women of the Black Panther Mural

Join us for a daily celebration of the world’s most wondrous, unexpected, even strange places.
The Podcast Team March 11, 2022
List

21 Places That Celebrate Female Artists

From classic to surreal to conceptual.
Jonathan Carey March 11, 2022
spies

The Mexican Revolutionary Who Fought for Freedom on the Battlefield and in the Barroom

Before she became a spy, Petra Herrera went undercover as a man.
April White March 11, 2022