When schools teach about women’s suffrage and the struggle to allow women the right to vote in America, we get the neat package. We hear tales of letter-writing campaigns, of activists walking in the streets holding signs, and of women giving rousing speeches. We are told President Woodrow Wilson supported…

She has fought most of her life for equal treatment of women in Iran. Even today, as she remains behind bars for fighting for justice, she is thinking of others and continues to stand for what she believes is right, despite the enormous toll it has taken on her life. …

When she couldn’t get justice, she just wanted an apology. It took the State sixty-seven years to say they were wrong. On Sept. 3, 1944, 24-year old Recy Taylor was walking home from church with her friend Fannie Daniel and Fannie’s son, West. A car pulled up next to them. …

She helped men go boldly where no man has gone before. Dorothy Catherine Fontana wanted to be a novelist. She wrote horror stories with herself and her friends as characters. As an adult, she attended college, graduating with an associate degree as an executive secretarial major. She worked in New…

When her brother was called to mobilize for the First Balkan War, she went as well. She cut her hair, wore men’s clothes, and became a Serbian war heroine. Milunka Savić was born on June 28, 1888, in Koprivnica, Serbia. Milunka was twenty-four years old when she joined the Serbian…

She raised a rebellion against Rome. Her wrath burned London to the ground. When Rome began its conquest of England in 43 CE, the Iceni tribe were already well established in what is now modern-day East Anglia, Britain. …

She wasn’t supposed to be queen, but after her brother, Edward, and half-sister, Mary, died, she took over and laid the foundation for what would become the British Empire. Elizabeth I of England was the daughter of King Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn. …