Welcome to Women of the Century, a commemoration of the 19th Amendment, a major step toward the universal right to vote in the United States. Here you will find interviews with trailblazing ...

Now a richer history of Sydney's Hyde Park Barracks has lifted the lid on what everyday life for women was like at the former female immigration depot and asylum during the 19th century.

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 ...

Influencers organizing around the hashtag #Tradwife have claimed the mantle of historical memory by tracing a line from Victorian wives and mothers to idealized 1950s housewives to themselves.

Their narratives emphasize archetypes imposed on 19th-century women ... of middle- and upper-class homes, a collision of the public and private spheres. Many women flocked to the religion after ...

One such thread is the surprisingly large number of young women incarcerated in the latter half of the 19th century. Women hadn’t been a real presence in the jails of early Berkshire, but ...

The Tenement Museum undertook extensive research for its interactive exhibit. For years, The Tenement Museum in New York City's Lower East Side has become a living monument to the stories of 19th ...

The second is a fond depiction of London’s lower-middle-class Jews—fond ... Many said it should be lopped off. Half a century later, the great English critic F. R. Leavis was still using ...

You’ll see brief references to a handful of late-19th-century Mrs. Claus poems – especially Katharine Lee Bates’ 1888 “Goody Santa Claus on a Sleigh Ride.” But as I discovered when I began work on a ...