The rising costs of kosher meat led Jewish women to organize a butcher boycott. The successful action alerted the immigrant community to women's political power.

Class and religious differences, among other factors, thwarted the would-be friendship between two cultural titans, suggesting opposites attract, but may not adhere.

Thespian, lawyer, Freemason, spiritualist, and much more, Levere tackled one frontier after another, determined to show the public just what she could do.

What's the history of the vicious The Protocols of the Elders of Zion?

She designed Social Security and public works programs that helped bring millions out of poverty. Her work has been largely forgotten.

Betty Boop was literally designed to be a bombshell, but around 1935, her creators decided to change her appearance.

Shoddy came to have anti-Semitic overtones during the American Civil War.