These women first made mushrooms a trend—back in the 1800s
From Lion’s Mane supplements to mushroom 'leather' shoes, mushrooms are having a moment right now. But the trend isn't ...
5 Women Win Reparations From Belgium for Crimes Under Colonial Rule
In a landmark case, a court ruled that the women, now in their 70s and 80s, who were taken from their parents in Belgian ...
Smithsonian Magazine on MSN12d
From Jealous Spouses to Paranoid Bosses, Pedometers Quantified Suspicion in the 19th Century
The devices were used to track movement and measure productivity—an insightful foreshadowing of our current preoccupation ...
Susan Corso: Crafting Spiritual Fiction In The Gilded Age
Author Susan Corso's "Subversive Lovelies" series, set in New York's Gilded Age, explores the lives of four sisters who ...
The Daily Northwestern13d
UT Austin professor traces roots of mass incarceration to forced labor of 19th century Black women
University of Texas at Austin Prof. Talitha LeFlouria presented her research about “the South’s most inconspicuous workforce” ...
The New Anti-Abortion Argument Takes Us Back to the 19th Century
My surprise at the natalist argument against abortion is not because I haven’t heard it before. To the contrary, it is ...
Minnesota Daily11d
One hundred years later: White women at UMN and the 19th Amendment
She would not have the right to vote for another 45 years, but women did not wait for that right to be given to them — they took it. This year marks 100 years since the ratification of the 19th ...
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette16d
ARKANSAS A-Z: Clara McDiarmid made waves as 19th-century reformer
Clara Alma Cox McDiarmid was Arkansas' foremost 19th-century women's reformer. She supported suffrage, temperance, women's ...
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US Suffrage Movement: How Women Won The Right To Vote In US Presidential Elections
The roots of the suffrage movement can be traced back to the early 19th century, alongside the fight against slavery. Women like Lucretia Mott emerged as advocates within the anti-slavery movement.