In the 1800s, women were often banned from dining without their husbands, but this historic restaurant provided women a space ...

Reimagine America dining room at Ballantine House. Ballantine House, a 19th Century beer mansion that's part of the Newark Museum of Art. Apart from the 19th Century B\W exhibit, the mansion's ...

The 19th century was an era of both romanticism and rapid change. It was a time when the public's perception of power and beauty was shaped by the masterful brushstrokes of a portrait artist. Yet, as ...

In a letter to her husband in 1776, former First Lady of the United States Abigail Adams reminded him to, “remember the ladies, and be more generous and favorable to them than [his] ancestors.” It ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 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 ...

As women across America continue their long struggle for equality in every facet of life, the vision set forth by a successful but forgotten champion of women’s rights in the 19th century offers a ...

On “Marketplace,” we talk a lot about disaggregated economic data — that’s information about the economy broken down into categories such as race, gender, age and other variables. But much of that ...

This piece, which is adapted from the book Dressing Up: The Women Who Influenced French Fashion (MIT Press), was originally published by the MIT Press Reader and has been republished here with ...

Justice Samuel Alito appears spellbound by the 19th century. In Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the decision Alito wrote overruling 50 years of constitutional protection for women’s ...

On the night of September 1, 1873, Pothum Janakummah Ragaviah, a wealthy woman from Madras, reached London’s Waterloo Station. It was 10.30 pm. She had travelled on a luxury liner via the Suez Canal, ...