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

Directed by filmmaker Ram Kamal Mukherjee, the Bengali biopic, which traces the extraordinary journey of stage actress Binodini Dasi in late 19th century Bengal, is wowing audiences in India and ...

Marriage offered a potential escape from this drudgery, but a woman's fate then rested entirely on her husband's shoulders. If his earnings were sufficient, she might cease working, but otherwise ...

Roswell was home to a number of textile mills in the 19th century that began producing Confederate military uniforms after the Civil War broke out. When Union troops arrived on their March to the Sea, ...

Voices of Resistance exposes how 19th century British postal services profited from and enabled transatlantic trafficking of ...

Clara Zetkin was a German leader who engaged with the question of women within the socialist movement. Here is how her ...

Some songwriters started writing poetry before segueing into song. Others will even say that most of their songs started as a ...

Though local suffrage slowly opened to women in many states, suffragists continued their fight for national voting rights through the 19th century ... has yet to elect a woman president, women ...

Debbie Marriott worked as a bank note designer for the Bank of England and was the company’s first female paper money artist.

More than 8,000 photos that depict English architecture, landscapes and maritime history from the 1800s to the early 1900s have been given to Historic England. The Janette Rosing collection has ...