Led entirely by women, the American Female Moral Reform Society gave material aid to those in need and pushed for men to be ...

But nineteenth-century Americans were eager to represent ... Virtually by definition, women of color and poor white women were excluded from “true womanhood.” To the extent that white women ...

During the 19th century, married women in England and Wales began to acquire ... Her health had also deteriorated, and she suffered from poor eyesight, severe headaches, epileptic fits and leg ...

Though local suffrage slowly opened to women in many states, suffragists continued their fight for national voting rights through the 19th century. Mocked, jailed, beaten, and force-fed ...

The Herald-Leader is celebrating Lexington’s 250th birthday by revisiting key moments in the city’s vibrant history, ...

A Belfast historian is calling for more to be done to celebrate and remember the trailblazing women who helped make the city ...

The young reporter always sided with the poor and the disenfranchised ... "Woman in the Nineteenth Century," which argued for women's equality in all aspects of life. Fuller traveled to Europe ...

and poor women. Many African American women could not vote unimpeded until the passage of the Voting Rights Act in 1965—long after the 19th Amendment went into effect. Work continues to protect access ...

The female authors of 19th-century culinary bestsellers were ... arising from ‘the destruction of estates in a poor and disorderly country with no industry and virtually no charitable institutions!’ ...