Woman Warriors ✦ A Home PhD

For the girl who grew up on Mulan.

History files warrior women under "exception." This course asks whether she was the exception, or the pattern the record erased.

12 weeks. 3,000 years. From the Scythian graves behind the Amazon myth to the 800,000 women who fought for the Soviets in WW2.

From the creator of the free home-PhD syllabus 4,700+ of you requested.

By week 12, you'll:

• Have a better answer than "she was so brave"

• Have read Joan of Arc's own trial transcript, not someone's summary of it

• Own the Warrior Ledger: your personal record of every warrior woman you met

• Have a finished thesis and creative project, so you finish like an actual candidate

Inside the PhD:

• The route: the Amazons → the ancient queens of war → Boudica → Mulan → the warrior women of Asia → Joan of Arc (twice) → the Viking shieldmaidens → Njinga and the Agojie → the snipers and Night Witches of modern war

• The primary sources: Herodotus, Tacitus, the Ballad of Mulan, Joan's trial transcript

• The real scholarship + recorded lectures (Penn Museum, TED-Ed, Columbia and more): the actual debates, not the Pinterest version

• Weekly seminar questions that make you actually think

• A weekly essay prompt + creative response: write Boudica's speech without a Roman editor, write your own Joan song, write Mulan for 2026

• The Warrior Ledger: one page per woman

• The Wider Roster: 20 more warrior women (Grace O'Malley, Qin Liangyu, Harriet Tubman...) to go deeper

• A capstone thesis + creative project

This is for you if you:

• Loved Mulan, The Woman King or Vikings and want the real women behind them

• Miss being a student, minus the tuition

• Want to steal from 3,000 years of fierce women for your own writing, songs or videos

The price, plainly:

Under $1 a week. Less than one new hardback. Every reading links free (public-domain texts, open-access papers, and in-copyright books through Open Library), so there's nothing else to buy. What you're paying for is the thread that ties it all together, so you don't spend months building it yourself.

What it asks of you: a notebook, a library card and about an hour a day.

How you'll get it:

• A 14-page PDF syllabus in your inbox the second you check out

• Every link clickable, straight to the free text or lecture

• Week one starts whenever you do. Tonight works.