All the children attended Ferris Institute, where Frank graduated in 1911 before launching a distinguished career as one of ...

A master of portraiture and a leading figure of American Impressionism, Cecilia Beaux left a lasting mark on 19th-century painting with her luminous and realistic works. Let’s take a closer look at an ...

Kissinger noted that realism was U.S. foreign policy throughout the late 18th century and all of the 19th century. Read Full Article » Related Topics: Foreign Policy ...

A rare 19th-century condom decorated with an erotic etching featuring a nun and three clergymen is going on display at a museum in the Netherlands. Believed to be made from a sheep’s appendix ...

On August 26, 1920, the 19th Amendment became law. Citizens of the United States could no longer be barred from voting based on their sex. The culmination of many decades of struggle involving ...

To protect our health, we have begun to pay attention to the air we breathe, much as people did in the 19th century, when they believed that airborne “miasmas” — vapors and gases released by ...

Even a century after Tennessee became the last state to ratify the 19th Amendment on Aug. 18, 1920, there are still a lot of misunderstandings about what that 39-word addition to the Constitution ...

In the century since the 19th Amendment was ratified, women have shattered glass ceilings at every level of American government with the glaring exception of president and vice president.

The received medical wisdom of the 19th century was that assertive, ambitious women were unnatural, and therefore sick. Sign Up for Our Ideas Newsletter POV. Subscribe Subscribe. Sections.

A half-century after ratification, when African-Americans were still being beaten and murdered for seeking the vote, the charismatic organizer Fannie Lou Hamer did not stand on the 19th Amendment.

A rare 19th-century condom decorated with an erotic etching featuring a nun and three clergymen is going on display at a museum in the Netherlands. Believed to be made from a sheep’s appendix ...