With that in mind, we decided to explore how legendary women of the 19th century were portrayed, comparing artistic paintings with early photographs to reveal how beauty ideals were preserved ...

A rare 19th-century condom decorated with an erotic etching featuring a nun and three clergymen is going on display at a ...

An exhibit on Black women of the 19th Century is at the Ballantine House, a 19th Century beer mansion that's part of the Newark Museum of Art. Apart from the 19th Century B\W exhibit, the mansion ...

During the 19th-century campaign against abortion, advocates for laws banning the practice argued that they were necessary to enforce women’s maternal and marital duties and to protect ethno ...

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 mid-19th century women’s movement rose up in response to the Industrial Revolution’s impact on America’s largely agrarian society, as factories drew men (and then poorer women ...