Although men were the primary landowners, women often oversaw the property rights of the land during the Civil War in ...

Tissot’s flair for tantalizing subtexts and eye for the sumptuous details of women’s clothing made him a ... facets of modern life in the late 19th century. In brightly colored paintings ...

The clothes they wear—suit vests, black pants and white long-sleeved shirts for the men, long dresses and bonnet-like head coverings for the women—are modeled on those of their 19th-century ...