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As with most period adaptations, it's best not to get stuck on the details. Unless the details are funny, which they very ...
But as you’ve written and spoken about, it was common in the 19th century to experiment on enslaved Black women. He wasn’t unique in this. So I really wrote the book to be more inclusive.
Understanding how New York’s abortion laws functioned in the 19th century creates a new perspective on abortion bans in 2024. They, too, are far more of a weapon of class warfare than a war on ...
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 ...
Throughout the 19th Century, it locked up women it suspected of soliciting students or dons in the Spinning House. No evidence was needed, no fair trial was offered and sentencing was arbitrary.
Explore the significant contributions and enduring impact of 19th-century female entrepreneurs in shaping today's business world.
The 19th Amendment was a key step for women's rights in the U.S. Women won the right to vote more than a century ago, but access to the ballot has never been equal.
Though she’s dressed in an opulent, fur-trimmed gown in a palatial French home sometime in the mid-19th century, her silent fury is recognizable to women the world over who’ve contained their ...
BETHEL — In Bethel, tonight’s presentation by Historian Will Chapman at the Gem Theater will be a journey into the 19th-century and early twentieth century through a series of stereoview ...