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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Why did she do all the work while Santa got all the glory? What would happen if she delivered the toys? Joe Sohm/Visions of ...

Justice Samuel Alito appears spellbound by the 19th century. In Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the decision Alito wrote overruling 50 years of constitutional protection for women’s ...

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 ...

Smashing the patriarchy is hard work. The Doctors Blackwell, by historian Janice P. Nimura, profiles two sisters who faced what was a daunting lack of choices for 19th century women. They achieved a ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Author Kim Todd talks about the beginning of girl stunt reporting, including the story of Nellie Bly. Author and journalist Kim Todd recounted the ...

FORT LEAVENWORTH, Kansas (March 18, 2021) -- On June 12, 1948, President Harry Truman signed the Women’s Armed Services Integration Act, which legally permitted women to serve in any of the four ...

Open any compendium book about classical music and you’ll find an exhaustive list of male composers. In fact, there were many more male composers than female in the course of classical music history, ...

After the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, one aspect of the abortion debate stayed the same: lurid sensationalism. GOP firebrand Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene extolled the court for outlawing ...

The women who made up the suffrage movement a century ago were dismissed, degraded, even jailed. Yet they persisted. But even after women secured the right to vote (for most women – many women of ...