Women

Rosa Slade Gragg wouldn’t let a racist restrictive covenant stand in the way of the Detroit Association of Colored Women’s Clubs.

The Roosevelt Island artwork pays homage to her reporting, especially her inside look at a city asylum.

The record-setting 19th-century adventure was the result of a bet.

As queens or captains, women deftly operated ships across the Red Sea and Mediterranean 2,000 years ago.

As a Black woman, the daring circus performer also confronted the racial politics of the times.

Marie Grissot and Aimée Potens are just two of the women finally being written back into the history of childbirth.

The things Krafft and her husband learned getting up close to eruptions advanced volcanology and saved lives.

Grandma was just making a sweater. Or was she?

Meet the painter, the pilot, the author, and other "firsts" who paved the way.

In the mid-19th century, white ship captains relied on the Inuit woman and her husband to survive the unforgiving conditions of the Northwest Passage.

The 19th-century mountaineer and suffragist competed with men and women alike to find the apex of the Americas.

A young medical researcher's idea led to a powerful weapon against the disease—and a Nobel Prize.

Join us for a daily celebration of the world’s most wondrous, unexpected, even strange places.

Before she became a spy, Petra Herrera went undercover as a man.

Zheng Pingru’s scheme involved a fabulous fur coat and ended in tragedy.

From the Inupiat seamstress who killed polar bears to the Black motorcycle queen of Miami, these daring women lived life on their own terms.