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 ...

In new book 'The Jew Who Would Be King,' historian Adam Rovner tells the story of Nathaniel Isaacs, who survived a shipwreck ...

But his deeply satisfying “Bright Circle: Five Remarkable Women in the Age of Transcendentalism” is a tribute to a set of 19th-century women who made an art of contrarian thinking. They had strong ...

By the second half of the 19th century, the pace of ... from glittering society parties to women of questionable repute ...

Amazing pictures of 19th century Sydney show life for women in an era when it was a 'rough man's town' The never before seen photographs show how women of all classes were able to mix for the ...