On Queen Christina Of Sweden And Walking Away From It All

You know, no matter how much you love your job (which I do,) or your career (which I do,) or … More

The Past Is Female Too: Revolutionary War Edition

Here at Sistory we hold this truth to be self-evident: The Future Is Female. Women are smashing glass ceilings, dismantling … More

The Past is Female Too: Kentucky Edition

Here at Sistory we hold this truth to be self-evident: The Future Is Female. Women are smashing glass ceilings, dismantling … More

Hell Hath No Fury Like A Woman Whose Husband You Murdered

In this world, there is loyalty and then there is ride-or-die, got-your-back, never-gonna-give-you-up, never-gonna-let-you-down loyalty. Your Harry + Hermiones, your … More

It’s a Bird, It’s a Train, It’s a Common Misconception

If you were invited to see some newfangled technology and instead saw a train approaching you at full speed, would you wait to make sure it was just a movie – a concept you were heretofore unfamiliar with? Or would you bail first and ask questions later?

More Than Just a Pretty Face: How an Old Hollywood Beauty Invented the Internet

Just being looked at wasn’t really Lamarr’s greatest goal. She once said, “Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid.” In lieu of standing still and looking stupid, Lamarr decided to try something a little different.

I’ll Serve In Congress Over My Husband’s Dead Body

For a very long time, the so-called “Widow’s Succession” was the most common way women got elected to office in the U.S.

#SquadGoals: Qiu Jin, China’s Feminist Shero

Tomorrow, July 15th, marks the 110th anniversary of the execution of Qiu Jin, which obviously, you’ve had marked in your … More

A Kentucky Divided Cannot Stand

Both Abraham Lincoln, president of the Union, and Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederacy, were born in Kentucky. The state’s economy and access to everything outside of Kentucky relied on both the Ohio River, which flowed through the Union, and the Mississippi River, which went through the Confederacy. Kentucky’s entire livelihood depended on a United States. And for a time, there was the Union, the Confederacy and Kentucky – sitting on a fence, a classic middle child.

Loud And Proud: An Annual Reminder

Long before the LGBT community was able to have national block parties in their honor, a few brave citizens started a movement that would eventually become Pride Month.

Gin and Tonic with a Twist of Empire

Gin and tonic isn’t just the #SWF summer drink of choice. It’s a drink with a storied — and controversial — past. It’s a drink that once made Winston Churchill (no newbie to the drinking game) claim, “The gin and tonic has saved more Englishmen’s lives, and minds, than all the doctors in the Empire.”

Ah, Empire. Gather round, children, pour yourselves a drink, and I’ll tell you about a time when empire was more than just a must-watch TV drama on FOX.

A Darien Adventure: How Scotland Tried (And Failed) To Become A World Power

As the Scottish poet Robert Burns put it, Scottish parliament was “bought and sold for English gold.” But the reason Scotland was broke … that’s a story you’d never guess.

Everybody Move Now

Imagine a world where everyone who needs to move house, does so all on the same day. Imagine it. IMAGINE IT.

Women of the West, in a Town Called Opportunity

In some states, as many as one in five Homestead deeds were given to women. They had to be 21 years old and the head of their household, which allowed single, divorced or widowed women to claim land. “Any woman who can stand her own company, can see the beauty of the sunset, loves growing things and is willing to put in as much time at careful labor as she does over the washtub, will certainly succeed, will have independence, plenty to eat all the time, and a home of her own in the end.”

The Historical Precedent for Turning 25

History remembers Queen Elizabeth I as one of England’s most successful and beloved rulers. She ushered in the Elizabethan Era, a period of unparalleled prosperity for the empire, which gave us William Shakespeare and Christopher Marlowe. She stopped the persecution of religious minorities and led one of England’s most impressive military victories with her defeat of the Spanish Armada. And she did it all without seeming to give one single damn about what anyone else thought about her.