Women's History

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The Apache Woman Warrior Who Helped Lead Resistance to European Invaders - HISTORY (www.history.com)

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Preston university professor calls for women to be pardoned 400 years after they were executed for Witchcraft | Blog Preston (www.blogpreston.co.uk)

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Meet Isabella Bird, The Adventurer And Travel Writer Of Victorian England (allthatsinteresting.com)

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Remember the witches of Salem (www.bostonmagazine.com)

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Witches, Midwives, and Nurses by Barbara Ehrenreich and Deirdre English | 1973 (www.marxists.org)

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First Famous Female Firsts: Aretha Franklin and 57 Trailblazing Women Who Made History (www.rd.com)

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The Unknown Woman of the Seine

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So in Ancient Greece women wore veiles like... all the time (musea.univ-angers.fr)

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Hard to Berne: The Tragic Story of Australia's First Female Med Student - The Rotation (the-rotation.com)

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Remembering ‘Witch Cakes,’ the Evil-Fighting Baked Goods of the 1600s - Gastro Obscura (www.atlasobscura.com)

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A Civil Rights Pioneer Seeks to Have Her Record Cleared (archive.md)

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Black women whose awesome discoveries were credited to men (archive.md)

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Happy Birthday Ursula Le Guin

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AWOL - The Ancient World Online: L’Homosexualité féminine dans l’Antiquité grecque et romaine (ancientworldonline.blogspot.com)

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Fatima al-Fihri: Founder of the world′s oldest university (www.dw.com)

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Smitten by Giraffes - POV Magazine (povmagazine.com)

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The Real First Female 4-Star Admiral Is A Black Woman

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The 18-Year-Old Woman Who Struck Out Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig - HISTORY (www.history.com)

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Elizabeth Magie And The Forgotten Message Of The Inventor Of Monopoly (allthatsinteresting.com)

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The Rape Kit's Secret History | NYTimes Archive Link (archive.md)

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Amelia Edwards | Egyptologist | Blue Plaques | English Heritage (www.english-heritage.org.uk)

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“We wanted to write lesbian experience back into history”: An interview with Jay Taverner by Claire Heuchan - Lesbian and Gay News (lesbianandgaynews.com)

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Victorian women on why they were single (blackswallowtailbutterfly.tumblr.com)

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Katie Couric claims to have edited Ruth Bader Ginsberg's verdict on "taking a knee" (archive.is)

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Marcia Freedman Was Part of My Pioneering Feminist Generation (4w.pub)

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