Archaeologists have unearthed gold and silver jewelry at an early-medieval burial ground near the city of Sevastopol in ...

During the 19th-century, women had to provide the family with clothing. At the onset of the Industrial Revolution, the weaving mills for cloth and knitting were obsolete due to mass production.

The Woman's Bank operated successfully for two years, until in April 1887, one woman from Maine called to retrieve her investment and found she couldn't. Howe soon absconded with an estimated ...

We recognize that while the 19th Amendment was an incredible accomplishment, we know that in practice many women, most of them women of color, were left on the sidelines. For them, 1920 is not a ...

USA TODAY spotlights 100 notable American women as “Women of the Century,” as part of effort to commemorate the 100th anniversary the 19th Amendment.

by Dolen Perkins-Valdez. Amistad, 294 pp, $24.99. Two new historical novels set in mid-19th century America focus on seldom-told stories of women’s involvement in an era that profoundly ...