Camille Davis is writing a book called Visual Prestige: The Role of Portraits in Shaping the Nascent Identity of American ...

The show is situated in the museum’s enchanting terra-cotta arcade, which gives the displayed objects—red velvet pillows, ...

Professor Brooks' Yale college course will use Beyoncé’s work from 2013-2024 as a “lens” to observe Black history.

Even in the lower classes, women had little say over whom they ... Revolution and the growth of the middle class in the 19th century, which enabled young men to select a spouse and pay for a ...

As women head to the polls this election, they may not think of the suffragists who fought for them to vote a century ago.

Wedding fashion began evolving in the early 20th century. Coco Chanel revolutionized women’s fashion with trousers, while World War II emphasized the importance of practical clothing. The 1960s and ...

The practice of manipulating presidential, state and local plebiscites has had a far-reaching and infamous history in the 19th century. “With the infrastructure of democracy split into multiple ...

The 21st century pharmaceutical and biotech sector has come a long way from its roots in 19th century pharmacy ... as that of penicillin, enabling women to effectively control their fertility ...

The roots of the suffrage movement can be traced back to the early 19th century, alongside the fight against slavery. Women like Lucretia Mott emerged as advocates within the anti-slavery movement.

For several months in 1898, a pair of male lions turned the Tsavo region of Kenya into their own human hunting grounds, killing many construction workers who were building the Kenya-Uganda railway.