The Art Spy
An excerpt from THE ART SPY by Michelle Young, the extraordinary untold tale of WWII resistance hero Rose Valland and the art she fought to protect.
Feminist Foremothers of South Asia
A growing list of the women who are part of our "Feminist Foremothers of South Asia" series
Us and the World
Imaginations, Articulations, and Interventions from South Asian Women
Elisabetta Sirani’s Signatures
Bolognese artist Elisabetta Sirani (b. 1683) and her unprecedented decision to sign nearly all of her paintings
Luce Irigaray and the History of Women Intellectuals
Luce Irigaray's intellectual life
The Writing and the Life of Ann Batten Cristall
A detailed account of the life and relations of Ann Batten Cristall
Recovering Women of Color
Excerpts from recent publications
A Voyage Round the World
An account of Mary Ann Parker, the first woman to publish a travel memoir based on her voyage to New South Wales
Betrayals
An Eighteenth-Century Philosophe and Her Biographers
Carmen Balcells & the Latin American Literary Boom
Carmen Balcells was the woman behind the Latin American literary boom, launching authors such as Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Carlos Fuentes, and Mario Vargas Llosa into the global spotlight.
Reimagining History in the High School Classroom
Nikhil Shah reevaluates how historical narratives are developed and how they can be reformed
The Fate of Du Châtelet's Work
The life, writing, and reputation of Émilie Du Châtelet
Queen Puduḫepa of the Hittites
The Great Queen of the Hittites of Bronze Age Anatolia (Turkey)
The Serpent
A 1925 short story by Ruth Muskrat Bronson, a Cherokee author, educator, poet, and activist
Barbare Jorjadze: Georgia's First Feminist
Recognizing the full life of Georgia's first feminist Barbare Jorjadze (1833-1895)
Remembering bell hooks and Ella Turenne
bell hooks and Ella Turenne: the linked lives of two Black feminist leaders and thinkers
The Significance of the Ivory Lady
How changes in the archeological and anthropological sciences are revealing women's hidden history.
Queen Tamar of Georgia
The First Female Sovereign of Georgia: (1160-1213)
A Condensed Biography
A lineage of women: Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Hays, and Gina K. Soutendijk
The Women Who Shaped the Italian Renaissance
An Excerpt from the Introduction of TWENTY-FIVE WOMEN WHO SHAPED THE ITALIAN RENAISSANCE
In Remembrance of Gregory Louis Soutendijk
We mourn the passing of Greg Louis Soutendijk: the first President of The New Historia Board and its Board of Advisors
Remember Liss
A new American founding figure
Just Do It: The Life and Family of Dr. Jeanne D. Keller
One woman's life of knowledge and family
The Musical Life of Jane Austen
Jane Austen and Music
Shakespeare Was a Woman & Other Heresies
Elizabeth Winkler’s New Book
A Review of 'A Life of One’s Own' by Joanna Biggs
Across Time and Space: The Trials and Triumphs of Nine Women, Nine Writers
Queen Elizabeth I and Royal Women
Queen Elizabeth: global queenship and royal women
“We Did the Suffragettes Last Year”
“History that ignores one-half of the population is bad history.”
Women and the Word in the World: Mary Katherine Goddard
The most un-famous-famous female publisher
Melōsa the winner. Let’s focus on her.
The true significance of Melosa’s victory
An Unconventional Saint
Simone Weil's complexity
Excerpt of Shakespeare Was A Woman & Other Heresies
The idea of a female Shakespeare
The New Historia Salutes Mary Hays (1759-1843)
Celebrating the 264th Birthday of Mary Hays
Celebrating “Shirzan”: Iranian Women’s Fight for Justice
The Collective Force of Iranian Women
Mary Hays: Transforming the Meaning of Woolf’s 'A Room of One’s Own'
The idea of being free
Remembering Michelle Materre
Michelle, we miss you
Smashing misogyny since 2022
Celebrating International Women's Day and The New Historia's one-year birthday (and the launch of the New Historia store).
Poetry and Archaeology: Catoctin SlaveSpeak
Public art for an expanded audience
The Long Tradition of Feminism in Europe: Christine de Pizan
Christine de Pizan's contributions
Writing About Women in the History of Political Thought: Do’s and Don’ts
Mistakes that don’t get pointed out will remain
A Comforting Voice From Afar
What does Christine de Pizan mean to me?
Kari Krome: The Spark that Set Off the Cherry Bomb
Setting the wheels of rock and roll herstory in motion
The World Wide Witching Hour
Women of their own magic
Introducing Dr. Antonia Pantoja
Dr. Antonia Pantoja and her feminist life
She Who Wrote: Enheduanna and Women of Mesopotamia
She Who Wrote: Enheduanna and Women of Mesopotamia, ca. 3400–2000 BC
Manipur’s Women’s Wars
Indigenous women’s resistance
The two Queen Elizabeths: the end of the second Elizabethan Age
Story of Queen Elizabeth I & II
Patching up Women’s Writing From the Past
A special collective persistence
Female Stories Inscribed in Bones and Teeth
Finding mothers In the archaeological record
Lilli Alanen and Descartes’s Concept of Mind
Alanen’s philosophical work
Lysimache, or how to read a New Historia schema
The Story of Lysimache
The Revival of Women’s Voices: Creating a Literary Sisterhood
Connecting interweaving memories
Royal Women: From the Obvious to the Invisible
The history of royal Women
How Women’s Roles Are Diminished in Ancient Biblical Texts
A fading presence
Restoring Visibility: Promoting Women Artists of the Past
The mission of Art Herstory
Self-Harm and Reading Scars with Margery Kempe
Markings on a woman’s body
Hell Must Break Before I Am Lost
H.D. Reimagines the Classics
Testimony of History: Finding Solidarity with Women Across Time
Tapping the unlettered past
Searching for Ruth
My great-grandmother Ruth Standish Baldwin
Susan Brownmiller’s Radical Life
How one woman came to feminism
Feminist Biography and the Privilege of Appearing in the Archive
The archive and the unfamous
Abelard, Heloise, and a Woman’s Role in Church
On the Church and patriarchy
Welcome to The New Historia
An introduction to the platform
A Dream Deterred
Afghani women today
Knowledge Not Yet Formed
On knowledge-ordering systems
It’s Not the First Time. It’s the Thousandth Time.
On the female abyss