From their first encounters with Europeans in 1642 to the Musket Wars in the first half of the 19th century, the Māori, the ...

The Supreme Court recently ruled that maternity leave is a constitutional right, even in the case of a third child. But how ...

As a historical interpreter, researcher, artist, and designer, Cheyney McKnight incorporates 18th and 19th-century African American design skills to create pieces with a modern twist.

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

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

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

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

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

The Finger Lakes region of New York was instrumental in the 19th-century Women's Rights Movement. Various events and locations in the area provide opportunities to honor Women's History Month.

Many of his subjects were fashionable, bourgeois women, whom he depicted in an array of settings that reflected the many facets of modern life in the late 19th century. In brightly colored ...

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 ...