Dubbed the 19th century’s “queen of Gothic novel” and the “Shakespeare of Romance Writers,” Ann Radcliffe (nee Ward), born in 1764, outsold almost every other 19th-century female writer. Her name is ...

“As the first national women’s reform organization, [the American Female Moral Reform Society] showed that there was power in women organizing to address societal problems,” says rhetorician Lisa J.

Doing research for everyday homeowners has introduced me to some fascinating narratives that don’t always come up in the course of local history. One such thread is the surprisingly large number of ...

It wasn't just cakes. According to the New England Historical Society, Hemenway was said to have roasted a pig on the ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! The White House Historical Association joined with the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History to look at the role of food and dining in ...

Time was when Rachel Portesi did much of her photography using Polaroid film. She loved the immediacy of the image, the way each photo was different and often didn’t quite match what her eye had seen, ...

Though she’s dressed in an opulent, fur-trimmed gown in a palatial French home sometime in the mid-19th century, her silent fury is recognizable to women the world over who’ve contained their ire to ...

Madrid's Prado museum abruptly withdrew a 19th century painting from an exhibition of Spanish female artists on Wednesday night after an online art sleuth showed the work in question was actually ...

Robert Eggers has already made it clear that the Lily-Rose Depp you see onscreen in “Nosferatu” is all real: No CGI was used to enhance how physically and psychically mad she goes under the spell of ...

The gun was accompanied by its original mahogany carrying case, bearing a brass plaque on the cover, inscribed "Rifle Queen" ...