Women from a 19th-century farming community in the Netherlands probably didn’t breastfeed their babies because they were too busy working. It is the first time that widespread artificial feeding has ...
Exhibitions marking the 200th anniversary of the Erie Canal, as well as the histories of women institutionalized in 19th-century asylums will open in the UB Anderson Gallery on Sept. 12. “Eighty-Six ...
Mrs. Dr. Rebecca Keck of Davenport pulled her family out of poverty by selling her healing tonics in the 1870s but was seen as a quack, even in her family, generations later. At least until her ...
As women across America continue their long struggle for equality in every facet of life, the vision set forth by a successful but forgotten champion of women’s rights in the 19th century offers a ...
Anni Donaldson is a member of a University of Strathclyde working group of academics, students, the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow and The Women's Support Project which aims to ...
Laura Yares looks back at the 19th-century educators, mostly women, who developed a new model for teaching American kids about Judaism. (JTA) — As a kid I went to Sunday school at our Reform synagogue ...
In Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the Supreme Court justices that President Donald Trump appointed to reverse Roe v. Wade have just made good on Trump’s pledge. The decision so ...