Reiss, who was forced into a marriage at 19, founded Unchained at Last, an advocacy nonprofit, in 2011 to help girls and women stuck in forced ... At the end of the 19th century and into the ...

Three 19th-century American sects—the Oneida Pantogamists, the Shaker celibates and the Mormon polygamists—waged wars against the so-called selfishness of monogamous marriage. All viewed ...

Nimura, profiles two sisters who faced what was a daunting lack of choices for 19th century women ... She had no interest in marriage and chose medicine as a path to self-sufficiency, although ...

Americans have lost their mobility, the thing that once made the country distinctive, open and prosperous, writes Yoni Appelbaum in his new book, Stuck ... In the 19th century, maybe 1 out ...