Back in the early 19th century, it was basically impossible. “Widow Clicquot” hit theaters Friday. It’s the true story of the famous French wine family and the woman who created a legendary ...

It turns out this obsession with picture-perfect portraits isn’t new and existed long before Photoshop and filters. Back then ...

A new exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery traces three different 1800s forms of photo-making: daguerreotypes, ...

The showcase aims to shed a light on the stories and pastimes of children growing up in Edinburgh’s New Town in the early 19th century. The game was invented by Ann Young, the only woman to receive a ...

More than a 19th-century actress, Binodini Dasi was a woman who dared to write her life in ink, on her own terms. Her memoir ...

Toward a Pro-Woman Feminism for the 21st Century. The early American women’s movement took for granted that a woman was female—one whose human body was organized around the awesome capacity to ...

During a time when social status meant everything, women of the 18th century literally made an indelible footprint on early ...

Understand transformations in the roles of women and Japanese society generally during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Discuss what it meant to be a “modern” woman in the Japan of this period.