In 19th Century Paris, She Held a Permit to Wear Pants
A cigarette-smoking, pants-wearing, animal-dissecting painter, Rosa Bonheur spent her life doing exactly as she pleased.…
Category Obscure history
And Now, Let’s Raise a Teacup to Teetotalism
Before the advent of the speakeasy, the ramshackle bar that sprung up and vanished as…
Surprise Surprise, a Medieval Feminist Movement Left Out of the History Books
Women have undeniably had a roller-coaster ride throughout the ages. Forever pawns in a power…
Was the Colosseum Paid for with Pee?
What we know as the famous Roman “Colosseum” might have been paid for with pee,…
Stay at the Home of Victorian “Axe Murderess”
“Lizzie Borden took an axe And gave her mother forty whacks. When she saw what…
The Forgotten Elephant of the Moulin Rouge Garden Party
It turns out that Nicole Kidman’s fantastical elephant boudoir in Baz Luhrman’s 2001 motion picture, Moulin Rouge, was…
And Now, a Brief History of Poisoning
Never was there a weapon of more romance than poison. From the tragic double-suicide of…
Oh Nothing, Just an 18th Century Masturbation Society
The picture-perfect fishing village of Anstruther is situated in the county of Fife on Scotland’s…
Unsung Heroes of WWII: The All-Female WASP Squad
Where there’s a will, there’s a way — but for pilot Jacqueline Cochrane, there had…
Naked in the Mountains 100 Years Ago, She Invented the Advanced Selfie
Anne Brigman was turning up her selfie prowess about 100-years before the rest of us.…
She Was a Black Librarian Who Could Equal America’s Most Powerful Man
Today, we meet a heroine by the name of Belle da Costa Greene. Under the…
Eight Hundred Lost Children and a Voyage Around the World
In 1918 a group of American men and women from the American Red Cross wound…