History


A cornucopia display of a horn-shaped basket with apples, squash, oranges, and other fruits and vegetables pouring out of it onto a table.

Unpacking the Thanksgiving cornucopia and its long history of harvest and violence

Helena Ong
[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 and white photograph of Mary Phelps Jacob, also known as Caresse Crosby, standing by a wall and wearing a dark hat and patterned dress. She is standing by a wall with her dog.

Mary Phelps Jacob: the woman who invented the modern bra and took the Jazz Age by storm

Helena Ong

A collage of firsts in history.

21 firsts in history that show how far some courage can get you

Tamia Adolph
[Image description: painting of Anne Lister wearing a long black dress.] via Wikimedia Commons

Anne Lister is the iconic soul behind the chronicles of the first modern lesbian

Luale Monze
[Image description: Photograph of Sara Forbes Bonnetta] Via English Heritage

The true story of the African girl “gifted” to Queen Victoria

Bashirat Oladele

What would South Africa be like if apartheid never happened?

Candice Buckle

How Bedhead, Blush and Stilettos rose to fame as “sex symbols”

Candice Buckle
A black and white photo of Cécile Chaminade sitting at a piano with one elbow resting on the stand for sheet music and the other hand placed on the piano.

So you know Mozart and Beethoven, but do you know any female composers?

Tatayana Allen

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

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

Olivia McCormack

It is high time Shakespeare is written off as a relic of the past

Safa Shoaib
A black and white photo of a white women with her closed. The photo focuses on her eyelashes and her head is titled up to the left.

The history of eyelash extensions is actually so scary

Tatayana Allen