Kelly Marshall Most 19th-century schoolmistresses are long forgotten ... a University of Delaware art historian. At a time when women had almost no control over legal documents and played a ...

Led entirely by women, the American Female Moral Reform Society gave material aid to those in need and pushed for men to be ...

Wells mosaic is also a monument to women’s suffrage Look closely ... Tuesday marks a full century since the ratification of the 19th Amendment, which says that the right to vote “should ...

The conditions of camp life—most soldiers slept fully clothed, rarely bathed, and relieved themselves in the woods ... for a lifetime, women who dressed as men in 19th century America clearly ...

The Women’s Christian Temperance Union group started in 1874 intending to end the consumption of alcohol in the United States ...

Fleming made major scientific discoveries and belonged to the Harvard Computers, a team of women who processed astronomical data at the university.

In 19th-century Britain and North America, women were regarded as the ‘weaker sex’. Their ability to bear children gave rise to a feminine ideal based on marriage and motherhood, while their ...

Polish women only began to write cookery books and guides in the 19th century, whereas previously, they had been only readers. These also served as a vehicle for their own views – sometimes ...

A fascinating look at how the marginal status of Jewish women enabled them to become agents of modernization in 19th-century Eastern European Jewish society. In this extraordinary volume, Iris Parush ...

It was to have been a celebration of a century of women voting. But the Westmoreland ... when its members voted to ratify the 19th Amendment, just 20 days after Congress passed it.