German-born Emmy Noether continues to challenge and inspire mathematicians with her story and mathematical legacy. Introduction When Albert...
Women
They did not run haphazardly into the woods, but established creative and subversive escape strategies. Historians once...
Women were seen as property subject to contract laws in the text. Introduction Modern practitioners of Judaism and Christianity often turn...
The cult of Athena allowed women to fully participate in the life of the city from the...
She dressed as a man to coach her son. After she was caught, all trainers had to...
There are a number of women that have had a huge impact on the history of the...
Helen Hamilton Gardener turned President Wilson into a supporter of the Nineteenth Amendment, ensuring its passage in...
Women’s involvement in brewing beer has been documented back to four-thousand years ago in Mesopotamia. If you...
Three stories that show how women have created throughout history. By Lyra Kilston, Judith Barr, Elizabeth Morrison,...
This was the generation of suffragists who challenged society’s expectations of what it meant to be a...
During the early to mid-20th century, American textile workers of all categories were subjected to abysmal working...
How a 1970s feminist art group showed the value of hidden work. By Sarah WadeSpecial Collections ArchivistGetty...
“We have got to have a military formation of the women.” By Edward McClellandAuthor and Historian In...
The five-year program opened the minds of their male peers to the women’s abilities. By Nathaniel PatchArchives...
How Gilda Darthy’s bed tells a story about writing women back into history. By Amanda BermanCuratorial Assistant,...
Much of the iconography we associate with witches, from the pointy hat to the cauldron, originated from...
After the development of craft beer in the early 1980s, more women started to once again infiltrate...
A glimpse of the everyday challenges and triumphs medieval women faced during the Middle Ages. By Erin...
Women as warriors—or certainly hunters and not simply gatherers—have a long history reaching back thousands of years...
Throughout the wartime years, the need for workers in agriculture, as well as in manufacturing and the...
Honoring the unsung heroes of the Civil Rights Movement. My project, Mug Shot Portraits: Women of the...
Studying history is like detective work—especially when the rebellion of Black women has been left out of...
Even without the right to vote, Black women engaged in political organizing and partisan debates. Today, Black...
Queen Bona helps us understand how elite Renaissance women acquired, maintained, and negotiated power. Among the women...
Lucy and Suzanne’s story shows that quiet, persistent rewriting of the narrative of oppression can be a...
It can be hard to estimate broad social trends in the Middle Ages, but some sources allow...
A new book explores the photographer’s dedication to feminism and civil rights in the early 20th century....
Exploring one of the earliest bids by a woman to secure celebrity through curation of “personal brand”....
These women have had massive impacts on our laws and the advancement of human rights. Emma Lazarus...
All opportunities for education, prospect, liberation and development were closed to women. By Khelifa Arezki and Katia...