You think Martha Stewart takes housekeeping seriously? She’s nothing compared to the 19th-century reformers Catharine E. Beecher and Harriet Beecher Stowe. Pioneers of the “cult of domesticity,” the ...

The three Loving sisters moved to Fort Worth from Mississippi in the 1870s. They are buried next to each other in Oakwood ...

As their numbers grew, the women made a bold decision: they would no longer live under the authority of “unsanctified” ...

Johns Hopkins Magazine caught up with Robbins, A&S '83, to talk about the collective effort to locate texts almost lost to time, the sonnet form, and all the things that 19th-century African-American ...

The thickness, colour and texture of facial and head hair showed character traits about men and women, it was believed in ...

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 ...

A bench with a mural depicting Lucy Sullivan and scenes associated with her term as mayor and life in Baldwin City was dedicated Saturday, Aug. 8, 2020, in the new Sullivan Square Park in Baldwin City ...

Five films that address the position of women and sexual mores of a bygone era. The Reader is free. Producing it isn’t. And without your support, we can't continue. So we need you to chip in, even if ...

It's summer, a time of year when the robust calendar of women's business networking events take a hiatus until September. With any luck, we'll all be able to have some time to take a breather over the ...

“The Warrior Queen of Jhansi” takes us to the 19th century, when India was a British colony and British rule was enforced by the British East India Company, a military and trade organization that ...

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 ...