Clara Wieck Schumann was her father’s prodigy, a composer’s wife and a musician in her own right. Her story is still ...

They who while living had mingled their interests, fortunes, counsels, nay rather souls,” reads their tombstone, “might in ...

From George Washington to Robert E. Lee, Arlington's history is as complicated as our own. Here's how it became the hallowed ...

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Women eating alone receive pity — and free champagne. But there’s nothing to pity, or to praise, in a woman’s basic existence ...

Kate Masur, the John D. MacArthur Chair and Professor of History at Northwestern University, delivered the 2025 Fulton ...

Three quarters of mountain refuges in the Vallée des Belleville in Savoie are run by women – Rachel Ifans laces up her hiking ...

Marion Harland and Christine Herrick were a mother-daughter duo. Marion Harland was actually a very famous writer in the late ...

Jane Austen’s novels read as the ultimate in romantic fiction, where heroines fallen on hard times are saved by decent and ...

Is loneliness a modern epidemic as we are so often told? Did people in the past suffer similar feelings of isolation?

One of the most overlooked authors in the list, Mary Shelley is responisble for writing the first-ever science fiction story. The iconic work was inspired by debates on life and electricity. It asks ...

One of the distinguishing aspects of the much anticipated “Superfine” exhibition at The Met is that it’s the first dedicated to menswear in more than two decades. It was 2003 when Andrew Bolton, ...