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Close your eyes and imagine you’re married to Ernest Hemingway. Now, imagine it twice as bad, and you’ll be approaching the life story of Mary Welsh Hemingway.

While our perceptions of grandparents have remained static, we've asked them to do a lot more.

After decades of keeping her identity a secret, Jane Roe’s child has chosen to talk about her life.

Since the 19th century, men have served as gatekeepers in the entertainment industry, controlling women’s careers.

At a time when questions about women's rights in marriage roiled society, women readers took to the pages of cheap books about husband-murdering wives.

Dorothy Thompson finds a room of her own.

Why did the priest and the choir singer die, and what was the nature of their love?

“Conventional wisdom tells us that the gold rush was a male undertaking,” writes the historian Glenda Riley. But women were there, too.

“Not religious” has become a specific American identity—one that distinguishes secular, liberal whites from the conservative, evangelical right.

On revelations from a chance graveside encounter.

What sorts of youthful transgressions are forgivable, and which are disqualifying, for which jobs?

"I think the key change for the invention of the modern father is in the 1920s," says historian Robert L. Griswold.

Because most tales and treatises about this near-cliché of midlife crisis center on men, you might be misled to think they have nothing to do with women’s lives.

How changing gender norms and conceptions of childhood shaped modern child custody laws.

It's not that they're attacking him. It's what they're attacking him for.

One of the greatest living artists in popular music still isn’t properly recognized.

How neoliberals and conservatives came together to undo the welfare state.

It is only recently that domestic abuse was identified as a serious, public social problem.