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 ...

In 1845 Greeley published Fuller's landmark book, "Woman in the Nineteenth Century," which argued for women's equality in all aspects of life. Fuller traveled to Europe in 1846, becoming the first ...

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 ...

A fascinating look at how the marginal status of Jewish women enabled them to become agents of modernization in 19th-century Eastern European Jewish society. In this extraordinary volume, Iris Parush ...

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 ...

The first half of the 19th century was a time of great change. Industrialization brought new opportunities for employment, changing ideas of work, and economic cycles of boom and bust. During this ...

indigenous and other American women of color were essential to the suffrage movement even though their efforts have not historically always been recognized. Tuesday marks a full century since 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 ...