By 1980, a sea-change had taken with respect to the thinking of religious right leaders. By Donne...
Women
A survey of 251 women engineers who graduated from college in the 1970s sheds light on the...
The school founded by evangelist Jerry Falwell allegedly ignored reports of rape and threatened to punish accusers....
Mary Washington raised George and his four siblings mainly alone, imbuing in George many of his best...
One citation at a time, a professor and her students are crafting a more complete picture of...
Have you fallen in love with a Taurus woman and want to build a strong relationship with...
German-born Emmy Noether continues to challenge and inspire mathematicians with her story and mathematical legacy. Introduction When Albert...
They did not run haphazardly into the woods, but established creative and subversive escape strategies. Historians once...
For nearly 2,000 years, the mother of Jesus has been viewed as an exemplar by different Christian...
Women were seen as property subject to contract laws in the text. Introduction Modern practitioners of Judaism and Christianity often turn...
The cult of Athena allowed women to fully participate in the life of the city from the...
She dressed as a man to coach her son. After she was caught, all trainers had to...
Hipparchia turned the ancient Greek paradigm of women being homebound and serving men upside down. Introduction Cynic...
There are a number of women that have had a huge impact on the history of the...
Helen Hamilton Gardener turned President Wilson into a supporter of the Nineteenth Amendment, ensuring its passage in...
Women’s involvement in brewing beer has been documented back to four-thousand years ago in Mesopotamia. If you...
Three stories that show how women have created throughout history. By Lyra Kilston, Judith Barr, Elizabeth Morrison,...
This was the generation of suffragists who challenged society’s expectations of what it meant to be a...
During the early to mid-20th century, American textile workers of all categories were subjected to abysmal working...
How a 1970s feminist art group showed the value of hidden work. By Sarah WadeSpecial Collections ArchivistGetty...
“We have got to have a military formation of the women.” By Edward McClellandAuthor and Historian In...
The five-year program opened the minds of their male peers to the women’s abilities. By Nathaniel PatchArchives...
How Gilda Darthy’s bed tells a story about writing women back into history. By Amanda BermanCuratorial Assistant,...
Victims’ gender and race cannot be separated when attacked by white male violence. By Dr. Karen LeongAssociate...
Much of the iconography we associate with witches, from the pointy hat to the cauldron, originated from...
After the development of craft beer in the early 1980s, more women started to once again infiltrate...
Some evangelical women are beginning to speak out about the limits of complementarian theology. By Yonat ShimronNational...
Evangelical Christian churches say a man’s authority is in God’s plan and women have a duty to...
A glimpse of the everyday challenges and triumphs medieval women faced during the Middle Ages. By Erin...
Women as warriors—or certainly hunters and not simply gatherers—have a long history reaching back thousands of years...