Why did she do all the work while Santa got all the glory? What would happen if she delivered the toys? Joe Sohm/Visions of America/Universal Images Group via Getty Images Clement Clarke Moore’s 1823 ...

Smashing the patriarchy is hard work. The Doctors Blackwell, by historian Janice P. Nimura, profiles two sisters who faced what was a daunting lack of choices for 19th century women. They achieved a ...

In a six-year-long research effort, researchers have reshaped the narrative of Finnish music history by introducing overlooked female composers from the 19th and early 20th centuries University of the ...

Though she’s dressed in an opulent, fur-trimmed gown in a palatial French home sometime in the mid-19th century, her silent fury is recognizable to women the world over who’ve contained their ire to ...

A century has elapsed since the 19th Amendment granted women the right to vote at the federal level. But no single analysis of those 100 years can explain “the women’s vote,” as it’s impossible to ...

User-Created Clip by mcgorry May 17, 2021 2021-05-02T17:42:13-04:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/614/20210502174319002_hd.jpgAuthor Kim Todd talked about the legacy ...

Mademoiselle M. F. Daniel, “A Rustic Bridge over a Brook Shaded by Trees” (19th century), etching (all images courtesy the New York Public Library unless noted) In the 19th century, Henrietta Louisa ...

Open any compendium book about classical music and you’ll find an exhaustive list of male composers. In fact, there were many more male composers than female in the course of classical music history, ...