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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Mademoiselle M. F. Daniel, “A Rustic Bridge over a Brook Shaded by Trees” (19th century), etching (all images courtesy the New York Public Library unless noted) In the 19th century, Henrietta Louisa ...

“As the first national women’s reform organization, [the American Female Moral Reform Society] showed that there was power in women organizing to address societal problems,” says rhetorician Lisa J.

In a six-year-long research effort, researchers have reshaped the narrative of Finnish music history by introducing overlooked female composers from the 19th and early 20th centuries University of the ...

Hidden in American history, all women's medical schools began to appear in the mid 19th century long before women had the right to vote or own property. "Daring Women Doctors" highlights the intrepid, ...

Though she’s dressed in an opulent, fur-trimmed gown in a palatial French home sometime in the mid-19th century, her silent fury is recognizable to women the world over who’ve contained their ire to ...