The received medical wisdom of the 19th century was that assertive, ambitious women were unnatural, and therefore sick.

On “Marketplace,” we talk a lot about disaggregated economic data — that’s information about the economy broken down into categories such as race, gender, age and other variables. But much of that ...

The 19th century was an era of both romanticism and rapid change. It was a time when the public's perception of power and beauty was shaped by the masterful brushstrokes of a portrait artist. Yet, as ...

The frontier offered opportunities for land ownership and artistic inspiration—but life there wasn’t without struggle ...

The lives of female prisoners in the 19th Century and those experiencing the criminal justice system today are not dissimilar, a charity worker has said. An exhibition at Newcastle Cathedral is ...

“Americans never move until the fifty-ninth minute of the eleventh hour. The fifty-ninth minute is now upon us.“ —Matilda Joslyn Gage, “The Dangers of the Hour” (1890) From her first public speech, at ...

In a six-year-long research effort, researchers have reshaped the narrative of Finnish music history by introducing overlooked female composers from the 19th and early 20th centuries University of the ...

Hidden in American history, all women's medical schools began to appear in the mid 19th century long before women had the right to vote or own property. "Daring Women Doctors" highlights the intrepid, ...

“As the first national women’s reform organization, [the American Female Moral Reform Society] showed that there was power in women organizing to address societal problems,” says rhetorician Lisa J.

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 ire to ...