Too often, the stories of women are forgotten by history, their names replaced by “his wife” or “his mother” or “his daughter,” or simply erased. In celebration of Women’s History Month 2022, the authors, artists, and community contributors of Atlas Obscura came together to craft a new history of women.
For 31 days, they told her stories, highlighting women who helped shaped the world as we know it—and ones who are changing the world right now. They visited every continent and traveled across the millennia. They snuck through World War II minefields in the Philippines with a fearless Allied spy, hung by their teeth with Paris’s most celebrated 19th-century aerialist, and trekked to the South Pole with the first woman of color to make the arduous trip alone. She did it in 2022.
role: Editor outlet: Atlas Obscura publication date: March 2022 category:History
