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 ...

In 19th-century Britain and North America, women were regarded as the ‘weaker sex’. Their ability to bear children gave rise to a feminine ideal based on marriage and motherhood, while their ...

For instance, the early 20th Century saw significant change brought about by campaigns for peace, women’s suffrage, ...

Did you know that women in the United States have only been able to vote for just over a century The 19th Amendment, granting ...

Among these contributions, Black women writers have been especially powerful ... a Black woman in her forties living in the early 20th century American South. Hurston focused on what seemed ...

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 ...