The devices were used to track movement and measure productivity—an insightful foreshadowing of our current preoccupation ...

During the 19th century, married women in England and Wales began to acquire ... Her health had also deteriorated, and she suffered from poor eyesight, severe headaches, epileptic fits and leg ...

Young Quaker women also taught in schools and, after the American Revolution, created charitable organizations for dealing with the poor of Philadelphia. The affluent but plain-style of life led ...

The Late Great Planet Earth' was a huge bestseller. Its message about the Book of Revelation explains why evangelical ...

"Vivienne Richmond demonstrates the power of clothing in the lives of the working and indigent poor of 19th century England: children, women and men. This is an innovative exploration of clothing ...

and poor women. Many African American women could not vote unimpeded until the passage of the Voting Rights Act in 1965—long after the 19th Amendment went into effect. Work continues to protect access ...

The female authors of 19th-century culinary bestsellers were ... arising from ‘the destruction of estates in a poor and disorderly country with no industry and virtually no charitable institutions!’ ...

Throughout the 19th Century, it locked up women it suspected of soliciting students ... For the women caught up in in this system, "being poor, pretty and petulant seemed the biggest crime ...