As their numbers grew, the women made a bold decision: they would no longer live under the authority of “unsanctified” ...

Influencers organizing around the hashtag #Tradwife have claimed the mantle of historical memory by tracing a line from Victorian wives and mothers to idealized 1950s housewives to themselves. They ...

In the middle of the final decade of the 19th century, Britain was the most powerful and richest nation on earth, with the largest empire ever known. The nation might be thought to have had nothing of ...

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As we scroll through our social media feeds today, we’re bombarded with countless images enhanced by modern photo editing tools. But the desire to perfect one’s appearance isn’t new. In the past, ...

Access these resources as a member - it's free! Charlotte Waisman described the range and limits of available roles for Colorado women in the 19th century, including writer and activist Helen Hunt ...

Reimagine America dining room at Ballantine House. Ballantine House, a 19th Century beer mansion that's part of the Newark Museum of Art. Apart from the 19th Century B\W exhibit, the mansion's ...

Open any compendium book about classical music and you’ll find an exhaustive list of male composers. In fact, there were many more male composers than female in the course of classical music history, ...

Though she’s dressed in an opulent, fur-trimmed gown in a palatial French home sometime in the mid-19th century, her silent fury is recognizable to women the world over who’ve contained their ire to ...

User-Created Clip by Eleanorgreen29 July 11, 2019 2019-01-06T19:42:38-05:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/2ae/20190106194343003_hd.jpgCharlotte Waisman described the ...

Women from a 19th-century farming community in the Netherlands probably didn’t breastfeed their babies because they were too busy working. It is the first time that widespread artificial feeding has ...