Kelly Marshall Most 19th-century schoolmistresses are long forgotten ... a University of Delaware art historian. At a time when women had almost no control over legal documents and played a ...

Tissot’s flair for tantalizing subtexts and eye for the sumptuous details of women’s clothing made him a ... facets of modern ...

One of these was fashion. During the Romantic era, for example, one could spot a revolutionary from the way his beard was trimmed. In Stanisław Wasylewski’s monumental work Życie Polskie w XIX Wieku ...

A fascinating look at how the marginal status of Jewish women enabled them to become agents of modernization in 19th-century Eastern European Jewish society. In this extraordinary volume, Iris Parush ...

It was to have been a celebration of a century of women voting. But the Westmoreland ... when its members voted to ratify the 19th Amendment, just 20 days after Congress passed it.