"Winnie, for whatever reason, decided to take on an adventure which even for men at that time was somewhat unusual. She decided she was going to learn to fly." During World War One, aeroplanes were ...
They danced, they drank smuggled booze, and they rewrote the rules of womanhood. The flappers of the Roaring Twenties weren’t ...
“Of course the women were important, but it was because they were our muses.” With these words, Roland Penrose, second ...
The bob hairstyle has been through a lot. As the butt of a joke, a symbol of female liberation, and a marker of societal ...
On Oct. 23, 1915, an estimated 25,000 women marched in New York City demanding the right to vote throughout the United States ...
The government rolled out a longer, harder exam this month for aspiring Americans. More than 350,000 Washington Post readers ...
In 1995, people pushing homemade coffins took off in the first-ever race of its kind in Manitou Springs in what is known as ...
At the turn of the century, Australian women artists travelled to Europe and returned with new styles and techniques. Their ...
In 1797 the “petticoat band” showed up to vote for the New Jersey state legislature, but only on a technicality. Their impact ...
The Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, the Women’s Suffrage Amendment, prohibited the United States and its states from denying the right to vote to the citizens of our country on the ...