Today marks the final day of our 100 Woman Project, a special series we began...

In her TED talk, Craftivist Collective founder Sara Corbett describes using handkerchiefs to, as their...

“I had this grand idea that Elvira’s kind of the Santa Claus of Halloween.” Self-proclaimed...

Last Saturday afternoon, there was a full-on dance party at a polling place in Philadelphia...

Turns out those folks in Salem Village, MA could have saved themselves a lot of...

Like millions of other Americans, astronaut Kate Rubins voted early in the 2020 election. Unlike...

Amy Coney Barrett was sworn in on Oct. 26, 2020 to occupy the Supreme Court...

She was just 19 when she wrote her classic horror novel during a rainy, claustrophobic...

Purple hippos, pastel pink pigs and adorably sweet, not-scary-at-all monsters are what illustrator and author...

Leslie Knope is a relentlessly cheerful, hardworking, and optimistic civil servant who really, really, really...

The first pitch of the first live professional baseball game to be broadcast on ESPN...

Some of history’s famous female feuds have turned ugly. From verbal lashings — Joan Crawford...

It was a short paragraph in her sorority’s alumni booklet that shined a light on...

A mother tenderly bathing her child. A mother holding her baby in her arms. A...

The Go Go's made history as the first all-female band to have a debut album...

“Once upon a time there was an old woman who loved to knit. She lived...

A sculptor, installation and video artist primarily producing works that address the experiences of Black...

Yo ho, yo ho, it was a pirate’s life for her. Mary Read spent much...

Wilma Mankiller was the first woman chief of the Cherokee Nation whose work helped to...

Saturday Night Live has championed women comics, actors and writers since its debut on Oct....

All young illustrator Dalia Messick wanted was to create a famous comic strip.  She tried...

The images are striking. A toddler, his tiny sock caught on barbed wire as he’s...

Most of what I know about poetry can be summed up in this opening line:...

She lived 95 years, as many years as necessary to complete the work she felt...

As a war correspondent, Dickey Chapelle talked her way onto the front lines of battlefields...

She stood down the Texas Rangers and spoke out for the rights of her Mexican...

She was the first Black woman to publish a book of poems in America. But...

In 2017, a replica of the ancient Greek Parthenon, widely acknowledged to be the first...

When Kate Warne interviewed for a job at the Pinkerton Detective Agency, no one would...

Karura Forest sits in the northern corner of Nairobi, Kenya, an oasis of more than...

Shirley Jackson wrote more than 200 short stories, but it's just one that puts her...

Melusina Fay Peirce dreamed of a life for women that paid them for everyday household...

When tattoos began popping up everywhere in our research this week, we took it as...

There are very few icons in American culture. Dolly Parton is one of them.

Julia Child mastered French cuisine, but before Paris she lived in Sri Lanka and China...

Misty Copeland's journey from ballet prodigy to inclusivity advocate springs solely from an art form...

Today’s autumnal equinox has us feeling a bit metaphysical, so let’s turn to ancient Greece...

Born in 1875 in a Michigan town named after her family, Katharine had lineage, serious...

We created the 100 Woman Project to prove a point: That women, who make up...

Nikole Hannah-Jones is an investigative journalist who writes for The New York Times Magazine about...

One of the most glamorous actresses of the 1930s and 1940s, Hedy Lamarr was promoted...

She misses the scent of hibiscus the most, and the gentle, tropical breezes that swept...

Three young Black girls in flowered dresses are pictured laying on a lawn, one gazing...

Naomi Osaka just won her second US Open title. But it's her social activism that's...

British writer Caitlin Moran has a lot to say, and she isn’t afraid to say...

Brenda Berkman was in her apartment in Brooklyn the morning of Sept. 11, 2001 when...

With dozens of books to her name, author Denise Swanson could be forgiven for easing...

“My mother wanted us to understand that the tragedies of your life one day have...

Visit the children’s room at any public library or shop any Scholastic Book Fair in...

The author of Nancy Drew books, Carolyn Keene, is actually a group of 29 writers...

The tiny rooms look pleasant enough, with curtains in the windows, a light overhead, a...

Let’s take a trip to Hawaii today, where this week native Hawaiians honored Queen Lili´uokalani,...

In January of 1958 a gardener and birdwatcher in Massachusetts sent Rachel Carson a letter...

Sometimes you read something that breaks your heart.  Yesterday Vanity Fair magazine published an essay...

The first American woman to become a self-made millionaire started out with a simple wish:...

Edith Rockefeller McCormick helped establish Chicago's Lyric Opera, lent support to Carl Jung, underwrote a...

As the saying goes, when one door closes another one opens. For Anni Albers that...

Her image of a Depression era migrant mother is one of the most iconic photos...

JoEllen Kerwin is a painter and skilled miniaturist whose work serves both artistic and historicalpurposes....

Ruth Asawa, best known for her airy, intricate, woven-wire sculptures, is having a moment. The...

Vivian Maier's lens showed mid-century American cities and society in sharp focus.

Yayoi Kusama, sometimes called the Princess of Polka Dots, is the most successful living female...

The League of Women Voters celebrates its centennial this year. As a child of a...

Same-day registration. Mail-in voting. Voter fraud. Foreign interference. These are the words we’re hearing as...

They stood in front of the White House all day, every day (except for Sundays)...

Fannie Lou Hamer was an American civil rights activist who first learned she had the...

Frances Willard

The crowd inside the Tennessee State Capitol on Aug. 18, 1920 was colorful, to say...

Women helping women is how Adelaide Johnson rose to modest acclaim as a sculptor in...

Happy World Honey Bee Day! The buzz is that more than one-third of the world’s...

Labor and civil rights leader Dolores Clara Huerta has always been a force. She spoke...

“All we wanted was to be stewards of this house,” Laura Luce says, looking out...

Her name means Lotus in Sanskrit. Former Attorney General Jeff Sessions said her questioning “makes...

Is it possible to create an image of something that by definition is impossible to...

Most people know Ann Patchett for her fourth book, Bel Canto, an award-winning novel about...

As anyone who’s ever spent time in a grandmother’s kitchen knows, the best recipes aren’t...

Leave it to a woman to help people see clearly. Inspiration struck Alabama native Mary...

Lynda Barry is a cartoonist, author, graphic novelist, educator and recent MacArthur Foundation Fellow (known...

It’s not just the people who give the Chicago Pedway its neighborhood feel. Like any...

The first day of school can be scary. New people, new rules, a new environment....

Ruth Wakefield was a dietician who invented the chocolate chip cookie, which makes them healthy...

It’s a lyrical image: two young children wandering the English countryside with sketchbooks, plopping down...

Happy National Sisters Day! Anyone growing up with a sister knows – it’s complicated. Today, if...

Hers was a life of firsts: The first African-American woman elected to the Texas Senate...

A few years ago on a trip to Portland, we came across this stunning mural...

Saima Abbasi is as surprised as anyone that a childhood love of nature has blossomed...

A star in many fields, Maria (pronounced Mar-eye-ah) Mitchell, the first female astronomer in the...

The true story of Marie Antionette begins on Nov. 2, 1755 with her birth in...

How do I write a poem for a statue? That was the question Emma Lazarus...