Each woman reached a milestone in American politics, business, or social movements. Reviewed by Erika Rasure Gender ...

However, whether for a few years or for a lifetime, women who dressed as men in 19th century America clearly ... and Sexuality Studies and African-American Studies and has received several awards ...

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 ...

The legacies of Black women continue to be celebrated in named and traditional memorials, by generations of memorializers and ...

Amazing pictures of 19th century Sydney show life for women in an era when it was a 'rough man's town' The never before seen photographs show how women of all classes were able to mix for the ...

“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 ...