Meet Lois Widmark, the 104-year-old Minnesotan who was a World War II "Code Girl"

When Lois Widmark turned 104 in January, the party wasn't quite as big, but that's OK. These days she spends a lot of time doing what she loves at her home in Ivanhoe, Minnesota, alongside her ...

How a Secret Team of American Female Codebreakers Toppled a Cold War Soviet Spy Network—and Unmasked Traitors on Home Soil

At Arlington Hall, women on the Venona Project exploited a Soviet cipher flaw to expose Cold War spies, a secret that remained hidden for decades.
Jezebel

The 2 Notorious Female Pirates Who Fought Brutally, Ruthlessly, and Sometimes Topless

Unfortunately, little is known about Bonny and Read’s early lives, and the patchworked historical accounts that do exist are largely uncorroborated. But they were most definitely pirates, and they ...
Council on Foreign Relations

Remembering Robert M. La Follette and the “Willful Men” Who Defied Woodrow Wilson on the Eve of World War I

A Senate filibuster on the eve of World War I alienated a president, prompted a senator to bring a gun to the Senate floor, ...