With the 2020 presidential election looming, now is a good time to remember the struggle women faced in earning the right to vote in the U.S. and the U.K. While...
[caption id="attachment_6309" align="aligncenter" width="768"] President Franklin Roosevelt[/caption] The year was 1937. America had just come out of the Great Depression, Ella Fitzgerald was still topping the charts, Snow White and...
For many women, the Ottoman Empire was a time of prosperity. Founded around 1300 by Osman 1, this empire became one of the world’s largest and most powerful dynasties and...
Plenty of films and TV series are based on historical female warriors. “Xena, Warrior Princess,” was inspired by the ancient Greek Amazons, and famous historical women warriors such as Queen...
You might have learned about radical feminists like Mary Wollstonecraft and Emeline Pankhurst at school, but there were plenty of other women — and men — throughout history who took...
By James Owen Yasuke (1555-1590) was thought to be Japan’s first black samurai, and up until recently has gotten little recognition for his feats. There are a plethora of theories...
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