women's history

What does a statue dedicated to mothers reveal about women’s rights?

Women’s economic labor was essential to state function.

Abortion in the 19th century was widely accepted as a means of avoiding the risks of pregnancy.

The majority-female platoon from North Vietnam that fought against U.S. forces in the Vietnam War.

Fissures in the feminist movement should not be buried as signs of failure but worked through as opportunities for insight.

At the intersection of gender and racial discrimination, Black widows struggled to get the compensation they deserved.

Wilson became a great supporter of the 19th Amendment, but only because he worked alongside a woman who spoke his language.

The results of Foote's simple experiments were confirmed through hundreds of tests by scientists in the US and Europe. It happened more than a century ago.

History classes made it seem like young girls wouldn't ever change the course of the world. These books taught them that they could.

Our foremothers wove spiritual beliefs, cultural values, and historical knowledge into their flax, wool, silk, and cotton webs.

The history of suffrage in the South—indeed, the nation—is messy and fraught, and more contentious than is typically remembered.

A conversation with Breanne Fahs on the lasting lessons of women's anger.

Officials altered a photo of the 2017 Women’s March to avoid “political controversy.”

Looking to the local level showcases how women claimed their rights in Early America.

Erasing the women of the founding era makes it harder to see women as leaders today.

They played essential behind-the-scenes roles as the American movie industry was taking off. What happened?

America has a history of dealing with witches - and it has culminated in a modern movement of politically active ones.

An historian discovers the portraits of two women all bound up in the pages of a 19th-century book.

A new show at the National Portrait Gallery spotlights figures including Harriet Beecher Stowe, Lucretia Mott and Margaret Fuller

Lost letters between Jane Addams and her best friend leave questions for historians,