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 ...

Archaeologists first excavated parts of the Mangup plateau in the 19th century, ... "Most likely, rich women were buried in both crypts where the items were found," Artur Nabokov, ...

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. Heather Radke.

Rich, Famous and Then ... “Her work is rooted in the 19th century, ... “Defying the conventions of this corseted century, she lived with women she loved and established a true matrimony, ...

In 19th-century America, ... and was supported by the fact that monsters could be born to women of any race. Rich draws upon the examples of an enslaved Black woman in Georgia and a white English ...

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 ...

BETHEL — In Bethel, tonight’s presentation by Historian Will Chapman at the Gem Theater will be a journey into the 19th-century and early twentieth century through a series of stereoview ...