The first half of the 19th century was a time of great change. Industrialization brought new opportunities for employment, changing ideas of work, and economic cycles of boom and bust. During this ...

A Belfast historian is calling for more to be done to celebrate and remember the trailblazing women who helped make the city ...

By the second half of the 19th century, the pace of life in Europe ... police in port and garrison towns to detain any woman suspected of sex work and force her to submit to an invasive medical ...

Marriage for working-class women was an economic necessity in 19th-century Britain, as they rarely earned enough to support themselves, let alone any children. For widows, children could be ...

Others chained themselves to the gates of the White House and refused to work ... to women in many states, suffragists continued their fight for national voting rights through the 19th century.

Her dream of finding work as a writer seemed distant when ... In 1845 Greeley published Fuller's landmark book, "Woman in the Nineteenth Century," which argued for women's equality in all aspects ...

The spirit of resistance demonstrated by the Atlanta washerwomen set a precedent for future labor movements. In 1866, just a ...