She Was There

From a first-century poet to a Roman consul’s wife.

From bow-wielding Amazons to the trash-talking, 18th-century “Mother of Boxing.”

Some experts estimate as many as 3,000 people were accused and executed for witchcraft in Scotland.

Botanists Elzada Clover and Lois Jotter braved rapids and steep cliffs to catalog numerous plant species.

The world’s first two-time Nobel Laureate was a nerd’s nerd who broke the law for knowledge.

The “Huk Amazons” were military commanders, leaders, soldiers, spies, and more.

This Women's History Month, we celebrate women doing extraordinary things all over the world.

Their inspiring acts of resistance were ignored or erased for centuries—until now.

She reappeared in World War II's Pacific theater where, for five weeks in 1943, she inspired troops and faced down air raids.

From Italy’s fortress-seizing countess to Angola’s battle-hardened Queen Njinga, these women didn’t back down from a fight.

Her name was Enheduanna.

The “she generalissimo” nearly won the English Civil War for her husband, King Charles I.

A new book examines how supernatural beliefs have often offered a voice, visibility, and vulnerabilities.

For more than a century, their stories were ignored—until now.

From musket-wielding empress Nur Jahan to writer Gulbadan Begum, meet the influential women of the early-modern Muslim empire.

A new book features 100 striking photographs of lone women who broke barriers.