Good catch! She did not take that standing down. Which brings us to our next big fact vs. fiction check on Season 3 of “The ...

The Herald-Leader is celebrating Lexington’s 250th birthday by revisiting key moments in the city’s vibrant history, including how Lexington women fought for the right to vote.

“If you think about the Scarlett image, it’s all about white women of wealth and privilege,” Edwards says. “Those were just a very few of the women in the South.” In fact, most 19th-century Southern ...

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

Clara Alma Cox McDiarmid was Arkansas' foremost 19th-century women's reformer. She supported suffrage, temperance, women's education and the women's club movement. Active locally and nationally ...

Prof Crone said: "In the beginning of the 19th Century, women were expected to be more virtuous than men, so female criminals were considered really deviant, and the purpose of Fry's ...

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.

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.

“Remember how ubiquitous bolts of fabric had to be, because there was no ready-to-wear,” Fox explained. “Women’s shirtwaists were not available in shops until the end of the 19th century.

Doing research for everyday homeowners has introduced me to some fascinating narratives that don’t always come up in the course of local history. One such thread is the surprisingly large number of ...

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 ...