“You don’t know you’re making history when it’s happening,” said Charity Adams Earley, the trailblazing Army battalion commander. “I just wanted to do my job.”...
When Helen Jewett was found dead from hatchet wounds to the head inside the brothel where she worked in 1836, the newspapers went wild with...
Zinaida Portnova was a typical teenager in Belarus, but when the Nazis invaded in 1941, she became a deadly Soviet resistance fighter who would be...
The woman with 14-inch biceps made history as an athlete, but Violette Morris was defamed by a sexist government and rumors of Nazi collaboration. In...
Inspired by a simple idea from female volunteers in 1917, the work of the Donut Dollies spanned decades and helped boost the morale of American...
For nearly a decade, the FBI stalked and slandered Jean Seberg until her suicide in 1979 — and all for supporting civil rights. While some...
Louisa May Alcott infused Little Women with her personal trials and tribulations growing up in an impoverished and unconventional family. Louisa May Alcott’s most famous...
The contraceptive called RISUG — reversible inhibition of sperm under guidance — is currently pending approval in India. The product is injected near the testicles...
Rocky Dennis’ extremely rare condition was expected to kill him before he turned seven. Instead, he survived well into his teenage years and lived a...
