Forgotten History

The jazz you listen to today is actually full of sexism – here’s the history

Aliza Schuler
Andrea Camassei, Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons

The real history of Valentine’s Day is pretty gory

Paulina Rowe
[Image description: A Black women in the 20th century getting dressed for a Harlem fashion show.] Via New York Daily News Archive/Getty Images

Black women were at the core of the Harlem Renaissance

Bashirat Oladele

A collation of images of Noor Inayat Khan

Noor Inayat Khan: the Muslim princess and British spy who fought against the Nazis

Rebecca Azad
Burnes Road

Burnes Road: A food legacy that lives on in the heart of Karachi

Haddiqua Siddiqui

Voodoo dolls aren’t what you think they are.

Aliza Schuler

[Image Description: Sophia Tolstoy (right) with Leo Tolstoy (left) in Crimea in 1902.] via NY Times

Leo Tolstoy’s legacy will forever remain indebted to his wife, Sofia Tolstoy

Safa Shoaib
nativity scene conceptualized through figurines.] via Christmas FM

Wait, Jesus Christ wasn’t actually born on Christmas?

Safa Shoaib
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