The New Historia

What The New Historia does

The New Historia is a nonprofit digital platform that publishes feminist historical scholarship documenting women's lives, work, and intellectual contributions from prehistory to the present. It serves academic researchers, students, educators, feminist scholars, activists, and members of the general public interested in women's history. The platform is organized around three core content products: Schemas (authoritative, transdisciplinary condensed biographical entries on individual women), Editorials (scholarly articles and thinking pieces), and Patterns (thematic collections illustrating convergences in women's experiences across time and place), plus the student-oriented Emerging Voices feature. Content is produced by a globally distributed network of 98 named contributors drawn from institutions including the University of Cambridge, University of Helsinki, the National Museum of Denmark, and Anglia Ruskin University, and is built on the scholarly foundation of the prior five-year Female Biography Project led by founder Gina Luria Walker.

The underlying technology is a content-publishing website (thenewhistoria.org) designed by LopezLab and developed by NotFound, supplemented by social media (Instagram), video distribution (YouTube), and email newsletter. The platform does not sell products or services and operates a donation-based revenue model via GiveCampus, with suggested contribution tiers of $50, $100, $250, $1,000, and $5,000. Distribution is global and free-to-access, and the organization is academically anchored at The New School in New York. The business model is that of a small nonprofit digital publisher with 1–10 employees, funded through crowdfunding, donations, and selective research grants (e.g., Carlsberg Foundation grants for the Tales of Bronze Age Women project), with no venture, equity, or institutional investment disclosed.

Name

The New Historia

Legal name

The New Historia

Website

https://thenewhistoria.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

2022

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

The New Historia is a nonprofit digital platform that publishes Schemas, Editorials, and Patterns documenting women's historical contributions, serving academic researchers, students, educators, activists, and the general public through a global network of volunteer scholars.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Historical Research Publishing

NAICS

Newspaper, Periodical, Book, and Directory Publishers (5131), Libraries and Archives (51921)

SIC

Miscellaneous Publishing (2741)

akta.pro primary industry

Humanities & Arts Scholarly Publishing (EDAGAFAE)

akta.pro secondary industry

Long-Form Writing & Article Platforms (MPACAIAC)

Keywords

• Feminist historical research
• Women's biographical archives
• Digital content publishing
• Editorial history platform
• Gender studies content

Headquarters

HQ city

Rhinebeck

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Digital Commerce or Content

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Operations, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Donations and Crowdfunding: The New Historia relies on donations and crowdfunding campaigns for financial support. The website features a GiveCampus campaign for contributions. Donation tiers mentioned include $50, $100, $250, $1000, and $5000 options.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

The New Historia is a digital platform dedicated to the recovery of women's history, publishing free editorial content in three core formats: Schemas (biographical capsules on individual historical women), Editorials (analytical thinking pieces), and Patterns (thematic cross-historical collections), alongside a student-focused Emerging Voices section. The platform serves scholars, students, educators, and general readers worldwide through its website, newsletter, Instagram, and YouTube channel, and is funded through voluntary donations.

Product overview

The New Historia is a digital platform for feminist historical recovery, organized around interconnected content products. The core product is Schemas—a growing collection of authoritative biographical entries documenting individual female figures across time and geography. Supporting content includes Editorials (scholarly articles and thinking pieces), Patterns (thematic collections showing intersections of women's historical experiences), and Emerging Voices (student research highlights). The platform functions as a collaborative "digital loom room" bringing together researchers, activists, and change-makers to recover women in history and create new knowledge-ordering systems.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Schemas Short biographical capsules that introduce readers to individual women in history whose contributions have been under-recognized. Conceptualized by Founder Gina Luria Walker together with the Editors-in-Residence and aimed at scholars, students, educators, and the general public.
• Editorials Analytical thinking pieces published on The New Historia platform covering women's history, feminist scholarship, and related themes, aimed at readers seeking deeper contextual and argumentative content beyond biographical capsules.
• Patterns Thematic collections that aggregate Schemas into broader cross-historical themes, allowing readers to trace patterns of women's contributions across time and geography.
• Emerging Voices A section dedicated to highlighting student-authored research on women's history, providing an outlet for emerging student scholars and producing accessible research-driven content for the wider readership.

Quantifiable outcome

• 50+ schemas representing rigorous biographical documentation at launch
• +2 more outcomes

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature3 records

Partnerships

Five partnerships are on record, tiered core and supporting.

• The New SchoolcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2019The Women's Legacy Project at The New School, led by Gina Luria Walker (Executive Director of The New Historia) and Ellen Freeberg, researched the founding mothers who helped create The New School. The collaboration produced seven videos documenting inspiring stories of women and men who envisioned a new approach to education amid domestic and global tensions. Walker is affiliated with The New School as Executive Director of The New Historia.
• LopezLabsupportingOthersLopezLab provided extraordinary website design for The New Historia platform, as credited in the footer of thenewhistoria.org.
• NotFoundsupportingOthersNotFound provided impeccable web development services for The New Historia platform, as credited in the footer of thenewhistoria.org.
• The Self-Portrait ProjectsupportingStrategic or Co-development PartnerKaty Oakley, a contributor and researcher/writer for The New Historia, also works as a researcher, writer, and production assistant at The Self-Portrait Project. Both organizations represent alternative archival systems addressing inequity in knowledge production.
• National Museum of DenmarkcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerKarin Margarita Frei serves as Full Professor of Archaeometry at the National Museum of Denmark. The museum houses and studies artifacts related to Bronze Age women including the Egtved Girl, Skrydstrup Woman, and Ølby Woman. The Tales of Bronze Age Women and Tales of Bronze Age People projects are conducted in collaboration with the museum.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• JSTOR: JSTOR is a major digital library of academic journals, books, and primary sources across the humanities, including extensive feminist scholarship. It overlaps with The New Historia's scholarly audience (academic researchers, students) and historical content, but operates at vastly larger scale as a broad library rather than a focused biographical knowledge base.
• Project MUSE: Project MUSE hosts peer-reviewed scholarly content in the humanities and social sciences, including gender studies and feminist history. It serves the same academic and library-licensed audience as The New Historia but as a broad publisher and aggregator rather than a specialized women's history platform.
• Internet Archive: The Internet Archive is a large-scale digital library preserving books, archival materials, audio, video, and websites. It addresses adjacent needs around primary source preservation (relevant to The New Historia's archival work) and is used by similar researcher audiences, but operates as a general-purpose preservation platform rather than a curated feminist history project.
• Oxford Reference (Oxford Women's Studies): Oxford Reference publishes subscription-based scholarly reference works including titles on women's studies and global women's history. It competes for the same academic and library buyer as The New Historia's Schemas, but as an established encyclopedia publisher rather than a community-driven biographical platform.
• Khan Academy (Arts and Humanities): Khan Academy provides free educational content across subjects including world history and art history, with biographies and editorial-style explainers. It shares The New Historia's free-access, educational positioning and student/educator persona, but operates at much larger scale as a multi-subject edtech platform rather than a specialized feminist scholarship destination.
• Smithsonian Open Access / Smithsonian Institution Archives: The Smithsonian provides open access to digitized collections and editorial content on U.S. and global history, including women's history exhibits. It serves similar educational and research audiences and shares the mission of preserving and disseminating historical content, but as a much larger, government-affiliated institution with broader scope.

Direct peers

• Wikipedia (WikiProject Women / Women in Red): Wikipedia's WikiProject Women in Red aims to close gender gaps in biographical coverage on the world's most-used reference platform. Like The New Historia, it focuses on expanding women's biographies and is driven by volunteer contributors; both compete for the same audience of researchers, students, and the general public seeking authoritative biographical content about women.
• National Women's History Museum: A nonprofit dedicated to researching, collecting, and exhibiting women's history, with an active online presence featuring biographies, educator resources, and editorial content. It addresses the same subject (women's historical contributions) and same audiences (educators, students, general public) as The New Historia, but through curatorial exhibitions rather than a schema-based digital platform.

Emerging players

• Biography Online / Biographies of Women: Biography Online curates biographies of notable women and underrepresented figures for general and educational audiences. It overlaps directly with The New Historia's persona (biographical capsules, focus on women's history) and reach (free online access), but operates as a content/reference site without Schemas' rigorous academic editorial structure or active contributor network.
• Clio (clio.com): Clio is a digital platform for exploring historical sites, museums, and landmarks across the U.S., with associated educational content. While not focused on women's history specifically, it overlaps with The New Historia's educational, place-based approach to history and serves similar educator, student, and general public personas.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• YouTubeyoutube.com/playlist?list=PLWhTJDazgMDnK-MkVA3Y6bMATYcLOdsy0
• Instagraminstagram.com/thenewhistoria
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/the-new-historia

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles9 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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