As with most period adaptations, it's best not to get stuck on the details. Unless the details are funny, which they very ...

Stories of women dressing and posing as men dot the journalistic landscape of 19th century America — and Great Britain — according to Sarah Nicolazzo, who teaches literary history at the ...

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.

Jewish women have been scapegoated for the failures of American Jewish education in the early and middle parts of the 19th century. By AARON LEIBEL SEPTEMBER 30, 2023 13:01 ...

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 ...

In the 19th century, women's religious orders experienced a remarkable expansion. Both old and new orders spread widely beyond Europe and made an enormous impact in the young United States. One ...

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.

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 ...

In the early decades of the 19th century, evangelicals by and large were postmillennialists — that is, they believed that Jesus would return after the faithful had reformed society according to ...

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 ...

In the 19th century, women's religious orders experienced a remarkable expansion. Both old and new orders spread widely beyond Europe and made an enormous impact in the young United States. One ...