divorce

On the inseparable histories of matrimony and disunion in the United States.

Uncovering the resort where rich women sought the elusive right to divorce

The holiday’s lack of history allowed activists to give it meaning after America’s divorce laws changed.

When James G. Blaine went to war with his son's ex-wife in the national press, he had no idea that two could play that game.

How Sioux Falls became a controversial Gilded Age “Mecca for the mismated.”

Even if her husband was a murderer, a woman in a bad marriage once had few options. Unless she fled to South Dakota.

The war brought many couples together. It also drove many apart.

Restoring agency to enslaved people means acknowledging not only that they created marriages, but that they ended them, too.

The strange tale of the socialites who shaped modern marriage on the American frontier.

It's crucial to understand the real history behind claims that men are being marginalized.

The problem no longer has no name, and yet we refuse to solve it.

A new book tells the scandalous secrets of a forgotten 19th-century tycoon, Miriam Follin Peacock Squier Leslie Wilde, also known as Mrs. Frank Leslie.

She used her work to live an autonomous life in a time when women were often trapped by socially constructed gender roles and systematic oppression.

Jill Filipovic on the generation that changed everything.

The pandemic doesn’t just threaten our loved ones, but knowledge of our past — so Nelson George went and found his.

In the post-WWII era, American lesbians negotiated lives between straight marriages and homosexual affairs.

After serving in Vietnam, Richard Holbrooke became a proponent of soft power. He would then contribute greatly to American foreign policy.

Edwin Forrest’s 1851 divorce trial.

Until fairly recently, President Clinton's narrow definition of adultery would have been backed up by the courts.

The past really is a foreign country, as historian Jonathan Ablard finds when piecing together the turbulent history of his ancestors in the West and Midwest.

Under pressure from his wealthy family, Leonard “Kip” Rhinelander claimed that his new wife, Alice Beatrice Jones, had tricked him into believing she was white.

Though Margaret Sanger and Mary Ware Dennett shared a mission, they took very different approaches. Their rivalry was political, sometimes even personal.

In Wilson’s chivalric framework, women were required to be submissive precisely so that men could protect the weaker sex.

Betty Ford and the public eye.

Steven Spielberg’s early films conjure all of his moviemaking magic to repair a world of lost dads.

After "Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?," the nightmare of American familyhood was the only game in town.

Born out of the Great Depression, the genre reminds us that even in hard times there's laughter, love, and light.

She was an actress. He was a shortstop. What we can learn from the press parade around this 19th-century power couple.

"The Custom of the Country" and its unique relationship with ideas of feminism and the culture of the early 20th century elite.

In the 1970s, NOW began to ask hard questions about the women who were no longer "homemakers", displaced from the only role they were thought to need.