With that in mind, we decided to explore how legendary women of the 19th century were portrayed, comparing artistic paintings with early photographs to reveal how beauty ideals were preserved ...

Vague phrasing in the state’s Revolutionary-era Constitution enfranchised women who met specific property requirements. A ...

Yet, the picture of the past that tradwife influencers paint is based on falsehoods. Their narratives emphasize archetypes imposed on 19th-century women by men rather than historical reality.

In “Bright Circle,” Randall Fuller shines a light on the women behind — and before — the male philosophers of 19th-century Massachusetts.

19th-century female entrepreneurs: impact and resilience Research into female entrepreneurship has the potential to uncover more about women’s contribution to past economies.

Laura Yares looks back at the 19th-century educators, mostly women, who developed a new model for teaching American kids about Judaism.

In the 19th century, several English women wrote accounts of their world travels. While considered by some as second-rate travellers, they were just as restless as their male contemporaries.

Unlike the solitary experience offered by the 19th century stereoscope, tonight’s event will be a communal exploration of Bethel’s past. Bethel women ...

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 who’ve contained their ...

In fact, the term feminism is now so broadly defined as to be applied retrospectively by both scholars and lay people alike to include the women’s rights movement of the mid-19th century (and ...

Gynecology was built on Black women’s suffering. We’re still reckoning with its racist roots today Modern gynecology was borne of experimentation of enslaved Black women, historian Dr. Deirdre ...