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 ...

In 1845 Greeley published Fuller's landmark book, "Woman in the Nineteenth Century," which argued for women's equality in all aspects of life. Fuller traveled to Europe in 1846, becoming the first ...

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 ...

At the time, it was exceedingly rare for a Black woman to serve as a schoolteacher ... Black community by the 19th century, certainly had African American churches and could have had small ...