Led entirely by women, the American Female Moral Reform Society gave material aid to those in need and pushed for men to be ...

However, whether for a few years or for a lifetime, women who dressed as men in 19th century America clearly rejected the strictures of Victorian femininity and demonstrated women’s capacity to ...

Though local suffrage slowly opened to women in many states, suffragists continued their fight for national voting rights through the 19th century. Mocked, jailed, beaten, and force-fed ...

Frustrations over the exclusion of women from America’s national narrative ... from the profession by virtue of their sex in the 19th century, a group of feminist historians began to search ...

In 19th-century Britain and North America, women were regarded as the ‘weaker sex’. Their ability to bear children gave rise to a feminine ideal based on marriage and motherhood, while their ...

Jenna Deep is an undergraduate at Dickinson College, double majoring in archaeology and history. Her historical interests ...