A new book tells the story of The American Girls' Club in Montparnasse, which provided studios and solidarity—though not for ...

Hidden in American history, all women's medical schools began to appear in the mid 19th century long before women had the right to vote or own property. "Daring Women Doctors" highlights the intrepid, ...

Reimagine America dining room at Ballantine House. Ballantine House, a 19th Century beer mansion that's part of the Newark Museum of Art. Apart from the 19th Century B\W exhibit, the mansion's ...

An 1880 Harper's Weekly illustration titled Women at the Polls in New Jersey in the Good Old Times Historica Graphica Collection / Heritage Images / Getty Images The first New Jersey State ...

Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic presidential candidate, has made history as the first woman and the first Black and South Asian individual to be elected vice president. Should she win ...

Congress passed the 19th Amendment, granting the right to vote to women, on this day in history, June 4, 1919 — sending the text of the amendment to the states for ratification. The amendment read, ...

Series from publisher's Web site. NPM copy purchased with Adopt-a-Book funds. Contents Prologue : networks of nineteenth-century letter-writing / Elizabeth Hewitt -- Introduction : epistolary studies ...

A new era is born.

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It wasn't just cakes. According to the New England Historical Society, Hemenway was said to have roasted a pig on the Worcester Common during the first Fourth of July celebration, in 1777, when she ...