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How Nellie Bly and Other Trailblazing Women Wrote Creative Nonfiction Before It Was a Thing

How Nellie Bly and Other Trailblazing Women Wrote Creative Nonfiction Before It Was a Thing

Lee Gutkind on the Early Origins of a Very American Kind of Writing

By Lee Gutkind | January 23, 2024

On the Meteoric Rise of “Aunt Elsie,” Beloved Newswoman and Children’s Columnist

On the Meteoric Rise of “Aunt Elsie,” Beloved Newswoman and Children’s Columnist

“I don’t believe in hammering in morals. I just believe in telling children’s stories which will make them happy.”

By Julia Scheeres and Allison Gilbert | September 29, 2022

The Real-Life Heroines of an Outrageous Era: A Gilded Age Reading List

The Real-Life Heroines of an Outrageous Era: A Gilded Age Reading List

Maya Rodale on Boundary-Breaking Women from Nellie Bly to Ida B. Wells

By Maya Rodale | April 28, 2022

Reading the History of Manhattan in Its Diagrams, Maps, and Graphics

Reading the History of Manhattan in Its Diagrams, Maps, and Graphics

Decoding Manhattan">Take a Look Inside Antonis Antoniou and Steven Heller's Collection Decoding Manhattan

By Antonis Antoniou & Steven Heller | April 22, 2021

On the “Girl Stunt Reporters” Who Pioneered a New Genre of Investigative Journalism

On the “Girl Stunt Reporters” Who Pioneered a New Genre of Investigative Journalism

Kim Todd Remembers the Fearless Women Who Changed the Trajectory of Memoir and Reporting

By Kim Todd | April 16, 2021

The Reporter Who Went Undercover at an Asylum

The Reporter Who Went Undercover at an Asylum

Nellie Bly Committed Herself to the Infamous Blackwell Island Asylum Just to Get the Story

By Susannah Cahalan | November 7, 2019

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