With a Sword and a Baby Bump, Caterina Sforza Took on Rome and the Pope
[caption id="attachment_6742" align="aligncenter" width="900"] Caterina Sforza[/caption] If you and I were sitting in a bar (back when life wasn’t weird) and I asked you to describe any woman from the...
Meet the 18th-Century Real-Life ‘Gnomes’ Paid to Sit in a Garden, Dispensing Wisdom
[caption id="attachment_6571" align="aligncenter" width="1280"] Representation of a garden hermit in Germany in the late 18th century[/caption] It turns out that the garden gnome that we now use to ornament our...
10 Things You Didn’t Know About Pocahontas
Unfortunately for the Millennial generation, we grew up on Disney’s version of Pocahontas and her infatuation with John Smith. Was it true? What really was Pocahontas’s life like? Well, you...
10 Mind-Blowing Facts about Women’s History
1. Alice Roosevelt, Teddy Roosevelt’s daughter, the firecracker 2. Agnes Sorel, the favorite and the chief mistress of King Charles VII of France 3. Queen Mary I, the first woman...
Jane Addams, The First Woman to Win the Nobel Peace Prize
Normally when people hear the name Addams they think of the Addams Family or our second First Family of the United States. Jane Addams is neither, but she certainly made...