Records of the Parisian gallery Tedesco frères tell a story of commercial success. By Dr. Isabella Zuralski-YeagerSpecial...
Women
“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,...
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...
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...
Throughout the wartime years, the need for workers in agriculture, as well as in manufacturing and the...
Honoring the unsung heroes of the Civil Rights Movement. My project, Mug Shot Portraits: Women of the...
Studying history is like detective work—especially when the rebellion of Black women has been left out of...
Exploring the Parthenon and its sculptural program from the perspective of gender. Introduction Few monuments can claim...
Strong and brave, the Amazons were a force to be reckoned with in Greek mythology – but...
Even without the right to vote, Black women engaged in political organizing and partisan debates. Today, Black...
The civil rights that various groups have fought for within the United States. Introduction What is the...
Winema Riddle was a Modoc woman whose life story illuminates Native American women’s roles in history. By...
Queen Bona helps us understand how elite Renaissance women acquired, maintained, and negotiated power. Among the women...
The “Book on the Conditions of Women” was novel in its adoption of the new Arabic medicine...
Lucy and Suzanne’s story shows that quiet, persistent rewriting of the narrative of oppression can be a...
It can be hard to estimate broad social trends in the Middle Ages, but some sources allow...
A new book explores the photographer’s dedication to feminism and civil rights in the early 20th century....
Exploring one of the earliest bids by a woman to secure celebrity through curation of “personal brand”....
These women have had massive impacts on our laws and the advancement of human rights. Emma Lazarus...
All opportunities for education, prospect, liberation and development were closed to women. By Khelifa Arezki and Katia...
The very concept of “woman” changed in a number of ways during the Middle Ages. Introduction Women...
Kübler-Ross was one of the central figures in the hospice care movement. Introduction Elisabeth Kübler-Ross (July 8,...
She was the first woman to be elected head of the American Heart Association. Introduction Helen Brooke...
The final step toward ratification hinged on the decision of one young man in Tennessee: State Rep....
How suffragists first used hunger strikes as a form of resistance and protest. Introduction Asylum seekers held...
A new paper makes the case that scholars have ignored the role of female ceramicists in Greece...