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Born in 1873 in Virginia, Willa moved to the Nebraska prairie at age nine. While other girls played with dolls, she roamed the grasslands, befriended immigrant families—Bohemian, Swedish, German—and listened …

In 1890s Nebraska, Willa Cather cut her hair short, wore men’s suits, and insisted people call her “William.” She was a teenager, and she was done pretending. Read More

For most of her life, Anna Mary Robertson Moses had done exactly what was expected of a poor woman born in 1860. She worked. She endured. She survived. At twelve, …

She was seventy-eight years old, widowed, and invisible. Read More

Worcester, Massachusetts. 1920. Robert Goddard stood in his physics lab at Clark University and made a prediction that would make him a laughingstock. He told the world that rockets could …

The neighbors called the police on him. Twenty years later, his “crazy” invention put humans in space. Read More

Myrna Loy was box office gold in the 1930s and 1940s. Audiences adored her as Nora Charles in The Thin Man films—witty, sophisticated, the ideal partner who could match her …

Hollywood called her “the perfect wife.” She responded by becoming one of the most dangerous women in 1940s America. Read More

When the sky turned black at noon, a 19-year-old teacher had minutes to decide: stay and freeze, or walk into a storm that was killing everyone it touched. January 12, …

she became an advocate for women’s rights. She lived a long life and passed away in 1943. Read More

At nearly eighty years old, Nona Gaprindashvili had already beaten the world. She’d beaten champions. She’d beaten grandmasters. She’d beaten a chess culture that told women to stay quiet and …

She Didn’t Ask Netflix for Apologies. She Asked for the Truth. Read More

Long before the Oscar nomination, before audiences watched trembling hands and eyes filled with tears, Michael Clarke Duncan was doing work that wore down his body and muted his dreams. …

Michael Clarke Duncan was doing work that wore down his body and muted his dreams. Read More

The most haunting moment in Titanic (1997) isn’t the ship breaking apart — it’s the silence afterward. The stillness. The frozen figures in the water. And the most unsettling truth …

The most haunting moment in Titanic (1997) isn’t the ship breaking apart — it’s the silence afterward. Read More

Italy, 1943. German forces had occupied the country after the government’s collapse. Jewish families who had lived in Italy for generations were now being hunted, rounded up, shipped to camps …

He was the most famous athlete in Italy. The Nazis never suspected his bicycle was saving hundreds of lives. Read More

The guard stammered an apology and fled. He never suspected a thing. Amy Elizabeth Thorpe was born in 1910 to a life of privilege—daughter of a Marine Corps colonel and …

She stood naked except for her pearls, and in that moment, she saved thousands of lives. Read More