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 ...

In 19th-century Britain and North America, women were regarded as the ‘weaker sex’. Their ability to bear children gave rise to a feminine ideal based on marriage and motherhood, while their ...

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 ...

Though local suffrage slowly opened to women in many states, suffragists continued their fight for national voting rights through the 19th century. Mocked, jailed, beaten, and force-fed ...

Polish women only began to write cookery books and guides in the 19th century, whereas previously, they had been only readers. These also served as a vehicle for their own views – sometimes ...

After generations of struggle for suffrage, the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was passed in 1919 and ratified in August 1920. To mark the centennial anniversary of women’s suffrage in 2020, ...

16, 2020 8:03 a.m. Tennessee tipped the scales to codify women’s suffrage in the U.S. Constitution 100 years ago Tuesday, becoming the 26th state to ratify the 19th ... of a century of women ...

Even so, the antiabortion laws of the mid-19th century were generally born of a sincere concern for women’s health that ... prejudices of the early American frontier, imposing numerous ...