The autobiographies of ex-slaves in America are the foundation of an African American...

Contemporaries sometimes called the nineteenth century “The Woman’s Century.” Certainly it is true that there were dramatic changes in the status and...

At the beginning of the twentieth century, women were outsiders to the formal structures of political life—voting, serving on juries,...

F. Scott Fitzgerald and his wife, Zelda, were guilty of many things. They were impetuous, they were known to drink too much, and they were prone...