Between the 1910s and 1960s, thousands of young women formed the backbone of the country’s thriving fishing industry.

These are the athletes who carved out their own achievements and identities in a sport that many might only associate with male aggression.

A new book, Queens of Jerusalem: The Women Who Dared to Rule, by Katherine Pangonis details the lives of Melisende of Jerusalem, Zumurrud of Damascus and their powerful peers.

A new statue in Winchester honors Licoricia of Winchester, a 13th-century moneylender whose life illuminates the challenges faced by Jews at the time.

In 1910, Orville and Wilbur Wright hired an Ohio seamstress, who is only now being recognized as the first female worker in the American aviation industry

Despite fierce obstacles in her path, the Black female aviator became a hero that would pave the way for generations to come.

Witch hunts swept across much of Europe between roughly 1450 and 1750. Fear of the devil, social unrest and mass hysteria contributed to the frenzy of accusations and trials, which often arose from local disputes and typically targeted unmarried or widowed women. Now, advocates are calling on leaders to exonerate the thousands of women and men targeted in witch hunts.

Before Phillis Wheatley published her book of poems in 1773, she’d had to withstand an interrogation by 18 men deemed “the most respectable characters in Boston.” Their task was to determine whether an enslaved girl, estimated to be about 18 or 19 years old at the time, had in fact written the poems herself, given widespread disbelief that a person like her—African, Black, female, young—could deliver such exquisite words.

Over the centuries, Brunhild and Fredegund were dismissed and even parodied. But a new book shows how they outwitted their enemies like few in history.

Having wrestled medical degrees from an appalled male establishment, the Blackwell sisters went on to found the New York Infirmary for Indigent Women and Children—the first hospital staffed entirely by women—and then added a Women’s Medical College that was more rigorous and progressive in its curriculum than the medical schools they had attended.

Gudrid’s name appears in two Viking sagas: specifically, The Saga of the Greenlanders and The Saga of Eirik the Red, known collectively as the Vinland sagas. But did Gudrid Thorbjarnardóttir, the “far traveler,” really exist? And, if so, did she really set foot in the Americas 500 years before Christopher Columbus?