The White House Historical Association joined with the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History to look at the role of food and dining in American politics, diplomacy, and culture. In this ...

They say beauty is pain, but for some Victorian women, beauty was death. During the mid-19th century, many fashionable women ...

We can thank the American women who steward, deliver, process and transport our mail – and for putting their stamp on our ...

“As the first national women’s ... the early and mid-19th century, Prior was uniquely equipped to help women and girls like the one she’d just met. By visiting lower-class neighborhoods ...

Bryant and Collet both worked as teachers, the principal occupation available to middle class women ... Century, is a more concentratedley analytical, more polemical dismantling of arguments defending ...

Gozen’s study unmasked the 19th century female entrepreneurs as pioneers of equality and diversity within the workplace. Employing more women and positioning a strong female presence in a male ...

A path to wealth from the Lower East Side Mandelbaum ... to-wear,” Fox explained. “Women’s shirtwaists were not available in shops until the end of the 19th century. Women’s dresses ...

Innovations in manufacturing and production facilitated higher rates of consumption among the middle class. For women in ... engine did in the 19th century. Moreover, the fashion world in the ...

Unlike the solitary experience offered by the 19th century stereoscope, tonight’s event will be a communal exploration of Bethel’s past. It is 1874 and several women and girls, dressed in ...