Corrine Koshiway Goslin

Corrine Koshiway Goslin Mzhickteno (Otoe) dedicated her life to serving her tribal nation and the United States, including by serving in the Coast Guard during World War II.

Continue reading

Cathay Williams

Though over 400 women served in the Civil War posing as male soldiers, Williams was the first African American woman to enlist and the only documented woman to serve in the United States Army, while disguised as a man, during the Indian Wars. Williams is also the only known female Buffalo Soldier.

Continue reading

Edith Lyttleton

The author of a dozen novels and many scores of short stories that were widely read in New Zealand during the first four decades of the twentieth century

Continue reading

Thusnelda

Germanic Cheruscan noblewoman who was captured by the Roman general Germanicus during his invasion of Germania.

Continue reading

Rokhl Auerbakh

Polish-Jewish writer, escaped from the Warsaw Ghetto and worked as a Polish secretary on the Aryan side, leveraging her non-Jewish appearance and German fluency.

Continue reading