While women's prisons historically emphasized the virtues of traditional femininity, the conditions of these prisons were abominable.

Helen Keller and Mark Twain's unusual friendship.

 A new one-woman Broadway show puts Josephine Baker back in the public consciousness.

Florence Foster Jenkins, the legendary diva of awfulness, known as the world's worst opera singer.

A look back on Nellie Bly and the era of "stunt-reporting."

László Polgár raised all three of his daughters to become chess prodigies.