Although men were the primary landowners, women often oversaw the property rights of the land during the Civil War in ...

His exposure to the world of fashion began during ... that a “battle over women’s access to public space” took place in the later decades of the 19th century, stemming from fervent ...

The fashion for women’s cookbooks came from the West ... Cookery books and guides written for women by women became immensely popular from the mid-19th century onwards. Karolina Nakwaska started to ...

It was Article I of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution ... It was the culmination of a century of agitation for women’s suffrage. Beginning in the 1840s, women organized in a concerted ...