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Past biographies, histories, and government documents have ignored Alice Paul's contribution to the women's suffrage movement, but this groundbreak...

Winifred Black worked in journalism from 1888 to 1936, often writing under the pseudonym Annie Laurie. Her work appeared in the Hearst papers--e...

In 1935, the United States Congress began employing large numbers of American artists through the Works Progress Administration--fiction writers...

This is the story of the Rankins, a family that embodied the risk and ambition that transformed America. John Rankin arrived in the West chasing...

Paper dolls might seem the height of simplicity--quaint but simple toys, nothing more. But through the centuries paper figures have reflected re...

 The fall of 2018 saw an unprecedented number of women elected to Congress, changing estimates of how long it might take to achieve equal repres...

From 1880 to 1920, the first truly national visual culture developed in the United States as a result of the completion of the Pacific Railroad....

During the years 1880 to 1940, the glory days of the American circus, a third to a half of the cast members were women--a large group of very vi...