Women’s History

Discover five pioneering women in music: a gospel queen, an electronic music pioneer, a punk icon, a pop legend, and a French Resistance member.

Agatha Christie is a well-known author of the mid-twentieth century, particularly for her wildly popular mystery novels.

As British men fought on the frontlines during the World Wars, the Women’s Land Army was given a vital task as part of the war effort: feeding the nation.

Despite being a popular historical figure, the best-known details about Harriet Tubman’s life are a mixture of fact and myth.

A sexualized figure from late medieval Italy, was Lucrezia Borgia a salacious femme fatale or an innocent pawn in her family’s insidious machinations?

This is the story of two Aboriginal women who are widely (and wrongly) considered “the last Aboriginal Tasmanians.”

Harriet Ann Jacobs resisted the hand life dealt her, fighting her way to freedom and exposing the horrors of life in the US slave industry.

Vasari, Winckelmann, and Berenson laid the groundwork for the field of art history, but in the 20th century, Linda Nochlin turned it on its head.