The Forgotten Women of History: Why Their Stories Still Matter

The Forgotten Women of History: Why Their Stories Still Matter

Behind every well-known historical figure, there are often the women history forgot—daughters, wives, sisters, healers, rebels—whose stories were never recorded, or carefully erased. At The Birdsong Letters, we write into that silence. In This Essay: Who Gets Remembered—and Who Doesn’t History is rarely neutral. For centuries, the achievements of women were sidelined, buried under their…