What is a dissident? In an autocracy, standing against the rulers could mean harassment, prison, torture, even death.

A new biography of Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, born in Concord in 1890, provides evidence that Flynn, a celebrated and maligned labor and political leader for much of the 20th century, fits the bill.  A ...

An excerpt from Power to the Partners shows how designing coalitions is vital to successful organizational partnership ...

Seneca Falls Women’s Rights Convention The first women’s rights convention in America took place at the Wesleyan Chapel in ...

At the Wesleyan Chapel in Seneca Falls, New York, a woman’s rights convention—the first ever held in the United ...

1848 — The women’s suffrage movement began at its earnest in the U.S. with the first ever women’s rights convention held at the Wesleyan Chapel in Seneca Falls, N.Y. Hailed as a “convention to discuss ...

You can view more than 80 objets d’art, ranging from monumental paintings, woodcuts, and fine embroidery to stained glass, ...

The third season of The Gilded Age has been mocking a historical movement, and its being very wrongheaded in its approach ...

World class soprano, Joan Elwes was 35 when she married Lindsay Millais Jopling in 1931 and moved to live in. A specialist in ...

From the Anti-Masons to Elon Musk's new America Party, here's a look at how third parties have made their mark through ...