Elisabeth Anthony Dexter, Ph.D. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company. 1924. 8vo. xviii+204 pp. $5.00. IN spite of the position of woman in America and the extraordinary diligence which has been shown in ...

In the heart of Colonial Williamsburg, the different roles women played in 18th-century society are evident. There are costumed interpreters like Deirdre Jones Cardwell and Katharine Pittman, who tell ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In a library full of computers and people wearing hoodies and sneakers stood a woman who appeared to have come straight from the ...

HAMPTON ROADS, Va. - As mother-daughter team Velya Jancz-Urban and Ehrs Urban did the research for their memoir, "How to Survive a Brazilian Betrayal", they became obsessed with the lives of colonial ...

The Black Women Lead project, which honors Black women from the 1700s to the present, has provided me with an opportunity to learn about a different side of American history. The stories of Black ...

EXETER — Historian Norra Cardillo is researching the Ladd and Gilman women of Exeter, work she plans to present as part of her master’s portfolio when she graduates from Idaho State University next ...

On July 4, Americans celebrated guys such as George Washington and Patrick Henry. But the ladies also deserve some praise. Thousands of women took part in America’s revolution against the British.

"Less celebrated than their male counterparts, women have been vital contributors to the arts. Works by women of the colonial era represent treasured accomplishments of American culture and still ...

Sayan Dey receives postdoctoral funding from Wits Centre for Diversity Studies and National Research Foundation, South Africa. He also volunteers as a senior advisor for the Centre for Regional ...

Abigail Adams (1744-1818), Portrait by Mather Brown, 1785. On March 31, 1776, as the crescendo of war drums sounded towards American independence, Abigail Adams wrote a letter to her husband, John ...