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 ...

The first half of the 19th century was a time of great change. Industrialization brought new opportunities for employment, changing ideas of work, and economic cycles of boom and bust. During this ...

Though local suffrage slowly opened to women in many states, suffragists continued their fight for national voting rights through the 19th century. Mocked, jailed, beaten, and force-fed ...

In the 19th century, women began to break into previously ... ABAJournal. "13 Pioneering Women in American Law." U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service. "The First Woman To Run ...

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 ...

One hundred years after the passage of the 19th Amendment, The Vote tells the dramatic culmination story of the hard-fought campaign waged by American women for the right to vote, a transformative ...

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture shared "Five African American Suffragists You Should Know" to tell a more complete history of the struggle for women’s ...

Mary Ann Shadd had been teaching for over 10 years in various towns… including Norristown, Pennsylvania.”  At the time, it ...

Even so, the antiabortion laws of the mid-19th century were generally born of a sincere concern for women’s health that ... prejudices of the early American frontier, imposing numerous ...

The women were recruited by the American Red Cross in the United States ... Red Cross was a civilian organisation set up in the 19th Century which became involved in supporting the welfare of ...

When it comes to longevity, consider that International Women’s Day has taken place each March 8 for more than a century, dating back to before the 19th Amendment to the Constitution gave American ...