By 1901, there was one nun per 400 members of the Irish population and many of these women left the country for missionary ...

Almost Unknown, The Afric-American Picture Gallery,” on view at the Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library, presents—for the ...

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 ...

Activists in the 19th century also rallied for improvements to women’s education, a cause that is arguably reflected in Tissot’s The Newspaper (1883). The print features a woman peering at a ...

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 ...

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 ...

An engraved portrait of American writer and economist Henry Charles Carey (1793-1879) Over the last few weeks President Donald Trump’s trade wars have triggered market instability, stoked fears ...