Before Hemingway swaggered through Paris or Fitzgerald gilded the Jazz Age, women ruled American letters. In the mid-19th ...

Historian Janice P. Nimura tells the story of America's first and third certified women doctors and the role these sisters played in building... Smashing the patriarchy is hard work. The Doctors ...

Richmond Kentucky’s The Weekly Register provided glimpses of traditional gender roles. The issue of Nov. 5, 1852, described ...

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 ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. At Bethel’s 1874 Centennial celebration on Bethel Common are, “16 young ...

Warning: This graphic requires JavaScript. Please enable JavaScript for the best experience. The House delayed the vote as long as it could. The year was 1921, and ...

In newspapers, magazines and novels, the "female husband" was a person of great interest. Questions of gender identity are nothing new. Way before Transparent and Chaz Bono and countless other popular ...

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 ...

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 ...

A century has elapsed since the 19th Amendment granted women the right to vote at the federal level. But no single analysis of those 100 years can explain “the women’s vote,” as it’s impossible to ...

Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. gave a highly selective account of the nation’s “history and traditions” to achieve a longstanding conservative political goal In Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health ...