Recently, historians have worked hard to recover the lives and experiences of African American women in 19th-century America. Often we are reliant on occasions when such women interacted with ...

Many of his subjects were fashionable, bourgeois women, whom he depicted in an array of settings that reflected the many facets of modern life in the late 19th century. In brightly colored ...

Amazing pictures of 19th century Sydney show life for women in an era when it was a 'rough man's town' The never before seen photographs show how women of all classes were able to mix for the ...

In 1845 Greeley published Fuller's landmark book, "Woman in the Nineteenth Century," which argued for women's equality in all aspects of life. Fuller traveled to Europe in 1846, becoming the first ...

“Woman in the Nineteenth Century”; they were, “Bright Circle” suggests, the foundations of the American women’s rights movement. “Bright Circle" brings together five women associated ...

Today, American citizens can vote regardless ... It wasn’t until 1920, after the passage and ratification of the 19th ...

required to convert or the reality that women were often key figures in American small-town Jewish communal life. In the 19th century, Jewish women were central to the establishment of synagogues ...

indigenous and other American women of color were essential to the suffrage movement even though their efforts have not historically always been recognized. Tuesday marks a full century since the ...