Recently, historians have worked hard to recover the lives and experiences of African American women in 19th-century America. Often we are reliant on occasions when such women interacted with ...

Many of his subjects were fashionable, bourgeois women, whom he depicted in an array of settings that reflected the many facets of modern life in the late 19th century. In brightly colored ...

“Woman in the Nineteenth Century”; they were, “Bright Circle” suggests, the foundations of the American women’s rights movement. “Bright Circle" brings together five women associated ...

required to convert or the reality that women were often key figures in American small-town Jewish communal life. In the 19th century, Jewish women were central to the establishment of synagogues ...

Today, American citizens can vote regardless ... It wasn’t until 1920, after the passage and ratification of the 19th ...