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Catalonia Is Posthumously Pardoning More Than 700 Victims of Its Witch Trials

Tompkins Harrison Matteson's 1853 painting Examination of a Witch, which depicts the 17th-century investigation of Mary Fisher in New England.

Catalonia Is Posthumously Pardoning More Than 700 Victims of Its Witch Trials

Ida B. Wells Is Mattel’s Latest ‘Inspiring Women’ Barbie Doll

Ida B. Wells-Barnett in the newsroom.

Ida B. Wells Is Mattel’s Latest ‘Inspiring Women’ Barbie Doll

Maya Angelou Is Now the First Black Woman to Appear on a U.S. Quarter

Maya Angelou at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in 2010.

Maya Angelou Is Now the First Black Woman to Appear on a U.S. Quarter

The Magician and the Suffragette: The Strange History of Sawing a Woman in Half

The magician P. T. Selbit performing a sawing a woman in half trick.

The Magician and the Suffragette: The Strange History of Sawing a Woman in Half

10 of the Best Gifts to Give This Holiday Season From Women-Owned Businesses

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Women’s Beach Handball Players No Longer Have to Compete in Bikini-Style Bottoms

Norway's Martinsen Marielle Elisabeth Mathisen mid-play during the 2018 World Cup final against Greece.

Read About Cannibal Leonarda Cianciulli in This Excerpt From She Kills Me: The True Stories of History's Deadliest Women

Leonarda Cianciulli's baked goods boasted some secret ingredients.

10 Questionable Pieces of Advice from Emily Post

Emily Post.

The Mystery Model In Gustave Courbet's Most Scandalous Painting

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Josephine Baker Will Be the First Black Woman Buried in Paris’s Panthéon

Josephine Baker in Hamburg in 1925.

12 Illuminating Facts About Mary Cassatt

Mary Cassatt, Portrait of the Artist

Why Do So Many Female Athletes Compete in Bikini-Style Uniforms?

Kerri Walsh Jennings during a match against Brazil at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro.

20 Questionable Pieces of Old-Timey Relationship Advice

A portrait of marital bliss.

Meet Opal Lee—the 94-Year-Old Activist Known as the 'Grandmother of Juneteenth'

People walk by the National Museum of African American History and Culture during a 2020 Juneteenth march in Washington, D.C.

11 Facts About the Salem Witch Trials

The Salem witch trials were a troubling time in Colonial America.

San Francisco's Antique Vibrator Museum Chronicles the Fascinating, 150-Year History of Vibrators

An adorable vibrator from around 1910.