Mary Ann Shadd had been teaching for over 10 years in various towns… including Norristown, Pennsylvania.”  At the time, it ...

Janette Rosing (1942 to 2021) was a renowned photographic consultant, connoisseur, and collector who dedicated her life to studying and amassing a collection of 19th and early 20th century photographs ...

From Manchester to Reykjavík, innovative tours are highlighting forgotten stories and re-incorporating female legacies into ...

The discussed topics, which ranged from the mistreatment of Black women in the Antebellum South to the relationship between ...

From fine art experts to rare book collectors, we spotlight leading the ladies in luxury for International Women's Day ...

is because the partition of the late 19th century was not a dramatic break with all that had gone before. Here too he takes up a point that he has made with great energy in previous work ...

For almost a century and a half of our nation’s history, women were barred from exercising this fundamental right. This is a film about their long, difficult struggle to win the right to vote. It’s ...

The Gilded Age was the era in the late 19th century when business and industry dominated American life as never before or ...

Women still have to do the lion's share of housework despite going out to work in ever increasing numbers. Researchers found that they spent three times as long on domestic chores, such as cooking ...

Gallery displays rare painting to mark International Women’s Day - Bacchanale by Olive Carleton Smyth (1882-1949) is now on ...

Narrator: Through the 19th century ... constant remained. Women were not allowed to vote in national elections. In 1867, when Parliament was debating about whether to give working men the vote ...

And to support the oystermen, the women made baskets to transport the ... Sandy Ground was a place where they could comfortably come to work and stay,” she said. “They were able to work ...