By Jessica Jacolbe / 06.14.2018 Today in Brooklyn Heights John A. Roebling, the architect of the Brooklyn...
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By Dr. Robert Davis / 02.15.2018 Professor Emeritus of History The Ohio State University Beauty and self-care has always been...
By Brad Bowman / 05.17.2018 Sosland Family Graduate Fellow in the History of Science Harvard University In...
The head of the suffragist parade in Washington, 1913. (Wikimedia Commons) They fought for the right to vote,...
She’s the Schneiderman who championed women’s rights in the 20th century. By Dr. Jennifer Scanlon Associate Professor...
During the war, the poster on the left, painted by J. Howard Miller, was only on display...
Florence Kelley (center) / Public Domain By Dr. Miriam Forman-Brunell Professor of History, Women, and Gender University...
By Kimberly J. Largent Editor Charge the Cannons Publishing The Early Years Mary Todd Lincoln, the most criticized...
Gal Gadot as Wonder Woman: a true Amazonian, she is trained in a range of skills in...
Women’s contribution to art history might have to be revised – for the better. Dean Snow/Society for American...
By Lynda Telford / 05.20.2018 Events and Projects Officer Richard III Society, Yorkshire Branch What was the...
Tattoo on an ancient Egyptian female mummy / Creative Commons For thousands of years, tattoos have been indicative of the passage from girlhood to...
A woman shows her support for Planned Parenthood at the Women’s March in New York City on...
Mum’s gone to Iceland. Creatista/Shutterstock The traditional picture of Vikings is one of boatloads of hairy men pillaging...
By Dr. Jenna Tonn / 03.15.2018 Visiting Assistant Professor in Science and Technology Studies Boston College The Museum...
Josephine Baker | AP By Chauncey K. Robinson / 03.01.2018 It seems only fitting with Black History...
Searching for role models in the math world. ImageFlow/shutterstock.com By Dr. Jennifer Ruef / 03.12.2018 Assistant Professor of...
Cornelia Africana / Wikimedia Commons By Dr. Peter Kruschwitz / 03.08.2018Professor of ClassicsFellow of the Pontifical Academy for Latin (Pontificia Academia Latinitatis)University...
For 45 years, Susan B. Anthony traveled the U.S. relentlessly, stumping for women’s rights. She endured ridicule,...
Flickr, Creative Commons By David Masci / 01.22.2018 More than four decades after Roe v. Wade legalized...
Brooklyn Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm ran for President in 1972 By Dr. Kimberly A. Hamlin Associate Professor of...
The 8th Quinquennial Council Meeting of the ICW in Vienna / Public Domain By Dr. Leila J....
Members of the Grand Rapids League of Women Voters organized a city get-out-the-vote parade in 1924. Grand Rapids...
This group portrait monument to the pioneers of the woman suffrage movement, which won women the right...
A protest to mark the first anniversary of the Delhi gang rape, in New Delhi, 2013. REUTERS/Adnan Abidi...
St Lukes Hospital, London: patients case book 1912-1916. Wellcome Library reference: H64/B06/015. What did it mean for a...
Planned Parenthood supporters demonstrate in Columbus, Ohio, 2012. Over the last hundred years abortion practices and policies...
“Saint Catherine in Prayer,” by the 16th century painter Plautilla Nelli, was restored in 2008. Nelli was featured...
Women’s reproductive rights are under attack across the globe. Sophie Cousins investigates the challenges women face in...
Elizabeth Bisland at the time of her trip, from the frontispiece to In Seven Stages / Author’s own scan....