Forgotten History


A painting of Pocahontas done in 1614,by Jean Leon Gerome Ferris.

The real history behind Pocahontas and her relationship with colonists

Natalia Ahmed
[Image Description: A boy in a refugee camp in Delhi during the Partition in 1947.] via Margaret Bourke-White, Life Magazine

The “alternative” history of the Partition that school didn’t tell you about

Safa Shoaib
Black background with white texts saying "The Blair Witch Project"

What the Blair Witch fable reveals about 17th-century women

Olivia McCormack

A 19th century illustration of the 1571 naval Battle of Lepanto.

This Avengers-worthy 16th century battle made October into the month of the rosary

Helena Ong
On the left, a portrait of a woman, the Rani of Jhansi, shows her clad in a tradition Indian dress and jewelry. On the right, there is an image of a statue of the Rani of Jhansi on a horse. A boy, her son, is strapped to her back while she wields a sword in the air.

Queen Lakhshmibai might have lost her battle, but forever won respect in the hearts of many

Tayyaba Rehman
Painting titled 'Death Comes to the Banquet Table (Memento Mori)', showing 'Death', a skeleton, threatening people at a banquet table

This woman’s side hustle killed over 600 abusive husbands in 17th century Italy

Shannon Zheng

[Image description: painting of a young woman with bonnet writing a with a quill. ] 'Lady Writing a Letter with her Maid' by Johannes Vermeer, c. 1670 (via National Gallery of Ireland).

Meet María de Zayas, the first author to publish under her own name in Spain

Beatriz Valero de Urquia
(A grayscale image of young Beat poet Hettie Jones) Via hettiejones.com

You probably don’t know about Hettie Jones, a crusading Beat poet

Vanessa Montalbano
A group South African women political prisoners

How Nikiwe Deborah Matshoba stood for the liberation of South Africa

Lilly Quin

An image of a stone engraved statue of Enheduanna. The image is set on a reddish, brown textured background

The world’s first author was a cool priestess with an even cooler backstory

Sahar Arshad
[Image description: Two women in history are featured side by side.] via Wikimedia Commons

6 badass women you probably didn’t learn about in school

Zara Shabir