Allison McNearney

From 'Adam's Rib' to 'She Said', these 7 films show the slow and steady progress of how women activists have been represented on the Hollywood big screen.

The apparel industry produces 4% of all global emissions--something has to change if there is any hope of meeting the Paris Climate Agreement target. Luckily, the fashion industry is beginning to take some very interesting and innovative steps to become more green.

I am a ghostwriter for the monthly blog post of Veracity Selfcare's founder Allie Egan. In this column, Allie Talk, she muses on everything from her hormone health and motherhood to health innovation, entrepreneurship, and the inequities in women's healthcare research.

I run the blog for Veracity Selfcare, a women's skincare and hormone health start-up. I craft, assign, and edit story ideas, cultivate new freelance writers for the site, work on website and marketing company, and ghostwrite the founder's monthly blog post, among other tasks in my role as content consultant.

The Newbery-Award-winning creator of Ramona, Beezus, and the rest of the gang on Klickitat Street wrote books for children in which children could recognize themselves.

When Washington Roebling, the Brooklyn Bridge’s chief engineer, discovered subpar steel had been used in its construction, he intervened to ensure the structure was safe.

William Miller predicted the Second Coming would happen sometime within the year following March 12, 1843. When it didn't, his religious sect, the Millerites, turned on him.

When socialite James Hazen Hyde threw a ritzy ball in New York City in 1905, the rumor was he had used company money, rather than his own, to pay for it. Shame and exile followed.

The rivalry between paleontologists Edward Drinker Cope and Othniel Charles Marsh produced some of the greatest fossil finds in history, as well as some of the pettiest behavior.

When George Parkman went missing in 1848, he was one of the richest men in Boston, and the biggest donor to Harvard Medical College. A scandal among the city’s super-rich unfolded.

In 1916, less than a month after Charles Hatfield began his efforts to bring rain to a parched San Diego, the county was deluged—valleys were leveled and over 20 people were dead.

In the 1920’s, Leo Koretz bilked his friends, family, and members of Chicago’s elite and the middle class out of $2 million ($26 million today). Once caught, he had no regrets.

In her ongoing series for The Edit, textiles expert Jill Lasersohn takes us on a deep dive into the fascinating history behind one of her all-time favorite fabrics—Toile de Jouy.

Hollywood star Thelma Todd was at the peak of her fame when she was found dead in her sometime-lover’s garage. Given her drama-filled life, questions linger over how she died.