Hudson would not exist as it does today if not for two 18th-century Nantucket whalers, Thomas and Seth Jenkins. When the British started harassing whalers during the Revolutionary War, the Jenkins ...

“That is how I first discovered the early women of science in the Italian peninsula.” As Findlen eagerly flicked the pages, she stumbled upon Cristina Roccati, an 18th-century trailblazer from ...

Women in 18th-century Anglo-America, for example, were inundated by “conduct literature”: writing in magazines, newspapers, and novels that dictated how they ought to behave, especially in ...

Diaries written by women in 18th century Ireland are still to be found in libraries and archives throughout Ireland, the UK, and Europe. They were usually deposited as part of a family's papers ...