Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar, the 19th-century scholar and reformer, transformed Indian society by championing widow remarriage, ...

Rukhmabai Raut, married at 11, became the first woman in India to legally obtain a divorce, defying societal norms and ...

A new biography examines how 19th-century Americans remembered Mary Ball Washington, who raised the future president largely ...

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ICON featuring four saints surmounted by Christ Pantocrator, from left to right Saint Aviv, Saint John, Saint Guriy (?) and Saint Samon, protectors of fidelity in marriage, flanked by Saint Theodosia ...