The Married Woman Who Kept Her Lover in the Attic | Atlas Obscura In April 1930, the  Los Angeles Times  began publishing what would end ...

From The Richmond Register : After training at Camp Lejeune in North Carolina, Campbell was sent to Camp Pendleton in San Diego, where w...

From Threaded : Nylon stockings made their debut in my hometown, Wilmington, Delaware, on October 24, 1939. That’s because Wallace Hume ...

From Iconic Photos : The photo was taken on May Day, 1947 at the bottom of the Empire State Building. Photography student, Richard Wile...

From Bloomberg : Siebert wasn't the first woman to rise above gender discrimination in the world of finance. One of the earliest docume...

From Top Secret Writers : Barnstormer, world speed record holder, crash survivor, stunt pilot, founder of a pilot union, and owner of a fly-...

From The Star Phoenix : The Virgin Cure is set in Manhattan in 1871, when 30,000 children lived in the streets of the city. It is the stor...

From Democrat & Chronicle : When Loretta C. Ford was a pediatric public health nurse in the 1960s, she was often the sole medical practi...

From the Guardian : In 1630, a certain oatmeal maker was examined by the highest church court in England, accused of preaching without a lic...

From the Observer : South Bend's Center for History is hosting the national traveling exhibition " Women & Spirit: Catholic Sis...

From Voice of America : In the early part of the 20th century, the chemical element radium was widely believed to cure a number of ailments....

From RedBank : When governing bodies enact legislation in any era, it’s done with the expressed interest, one can only hope, in being not on...

From 11 Alive : This is the 150th year since the beginning of the American Civil War. So much conflict history surrounds Atlanta and North ...

Review by Abbas Jaffer is Associate Editor of Altmuslimah : The question of what Muslim women’s veiling means in America is a highly politic...

From Bluffton Today : For the first time in its 96-year history, a female general is taking charge at the famed Marine Corps training depot ...

From Salon : When Harriet Beecher Stowe published " Uncle Tom's Cabin " in 1852, the American slave trade was a thriving inst...

From GO San Angelo : Recently, folks here recognized a lady not too well-known when her burial place in Fairmount Cemetery was singled out f...

From New West : When we did the Western Literature Association survey of Most Important Authors, very few women made the list. Willa Cather ...

From PAL-ITEM : The Wayne County Soldier's Registry for the Civil War lists more than 3,500 men. In that book is one woman who "ear...

From the Waverley Leader  - Remembering our ANZAC Women: WHILE most of the focus on Anzac Day highlights the many soldiers who fought for th...