Women have officially been able to vote for more than a century, but these 20 states had already given women the right to vote before the 1920 ratification of the 19th Amendment.

Phillis Wheatley Peters was a witness to history before the United States was a reality. Her story and its commemoration will be revealed in Dr. Alexandria Russell’s public lecture, “Black Women’s ...

New Zealand's women's suffrage, Civil War battles, Dead Sea Scrolls release, and International Talk Like a Pirate Day.

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As Latinas, we have the great privilege of living in a country where freedom and opportunity make it possible to thrive.

Lady Charlotte Schreiber, one of the most important collectors of ceramics in 19th-century England, is the subject of a new ...

Women in Alexandria also considered parasols an essential accessory during the Victorian era. Wealthy residents would await the latest European fashion arrivals at the port of Alexandria. The city was ...

Zionism is a nationalist movement, I insisted, and like other nationalist movements, it has a story rooted in the 19th ...

President Trump's U.K. state visit this week won't include the Scottish island where his late immigrant mother was born. Mary ...

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