Almost Unknown, The Afric-American Picture Gallery,” on view at the Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library, presents—for the ...

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.

Ballantine mansion. An exhibit on Black women of the 19th Century is at the Ballantine House, a 19th Century beer mansion that's part of the Newark Museum of Art. Apart from the 19th Century B\W ...

The operation again targeted women, but offered a more humble 7 percent interest, as opposed to the Deposit’s 8 percent returns.

BOOK EXCERPT Fashion history: This 19th-century undergarment made a woman’s hips look bigger, and her, wealthier An excerpt from ‘Butts: A Backstory’, by Heather Radke.

HBO's The Gilded Age is fiction, but informed deeply by history, with several characters that are based on real people ...

Considering her scandalous reputation during her life, no one has slipped under history’s radar quite like Jane Digby. A shameless adventuress in the first degree, Digby’s story is full of ...

The 19th Amendment was a key step for women's rights in the U.S. Women won the right to vote more than a century ago, but access to the ballot has never been equal. Learn about the barriers faced ...

Behold, a woman fuming. Though she’s dressed in an opulent, fur-trimmed gown in a palatial French home sometime in the mid-19th century, her silent fury is recognizable to women the world over ...

In 19th-century America, they became instead an object of the 'modern scientific study of monstrosity,' a field formalized by French scientist Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire.