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 ...

Photo courtesy of Fort Roberdeau Cat Schirf, wearing Colonial period dress, moves a wheelbarrow at the 18th century replica Fort Roberdeau in Sinking Valley. She will present the next lecture in a ...

When cultural historian Diane Schwindt finishes leading demonstrations of Colonial-era cooking, she is drenched in sweat and covered in grime. That's what happens when you stand for an hour over a hot ...

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.

When I was a child growing up in Kolkata, I would hear stories about the European colonisation of Bengal – the precolonial name of India’s West Bengal. These were selective narratives from a ...

"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 ...