Women’s History

Born into French nobility during a time of change and becoming an empress, Josephine Bonaparte lived a storied life full of trials and tribulations.

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

Grace Kelly was the embodiment of an American icon whose legacy continues today in many ways.

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.

Though she never held office, Eva Perón had an outsized role in shaping her husband’s political movement, Peronism, an ideology that outlasted the Peróns themselves.

As icons of strength and leadership, many African women have become figures of great inspiration.

Matte dresses, thick veils, and hair jewelry were all parts of elaborate Victorian fashion etiquette that was tied to grief and mourning.