Upper-class British women in the early 1900s participated in a craze for Pekingese dogs, signalling the role of empire in their social identities.

In the mid-seventeenth century, John Graunt, the “father of English statistics,” claimed dozens of young women in London died of green sickness every year.

Clarke’s interest in oceanic exploration in the 1950s was, like his undersea fiction, often neglected by an audience focused on the race for outer space.

The document that came out of the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention extended the long-lived and hard-fought movement for women’s rights in the United States.

How do we recognize and celebrate diversity and cultural belonging in the classroom?

Archaeologists use volcanic glass to figure out how people survived.

Efka—the German rolling paper company—was a Nazi regime favorite. After World War II, it was refashioned as a darling of the pot-infused counterculture.

Even when it was considered socially unacceptable, American women were knocking down pins on the local lanes.

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Christine used her pen to make a living at the French court, but even more pointedly, she used it to argue the value of educated women.