Open any compendium book about classical music and you’ll find an exhaustive list of male composers. In fact, there were many more male composers than female in the course of classical music history, ...

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

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 ...

As women across America continue their long struggle for equality in every facet of life, the vision set forth by a successful but forgotten champion of women’s rights in the 19th century offers a ...

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 ...

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, ...

In 1889, American journalist Nellie Bly embarked on a daring journey to circumnavigate the globe in under 80 days, inspired ...

A high-stakes case involving access to the abortion pill mifepristone has been wending its way through the courts this year. At issue is the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's approval of the drug, ...

In Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the Supreme Court justices that President Donald Trump appointed to reverse Roe v. Wade have just made good on Trump’s pledge. The decision so ...