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

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 ...

However, whether for a few years or for a lifetime, women who dressed as men in 19th century America clearly ... and Sexuality Studies and African-American Studies and has received several awards ...

Recently, historians have worked hard to recover the lives and experiences of African American women in 19th-century America. Often we are reliant on occasions when such women interacted with ...

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

After generations of struggle for suffrage, the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was passed in 1919 and ratified in August 1920. To mark the centennial anniversary of women’s suffrage in 2020, ...