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In recent years, it’s been popular for mainstream celebrity profiles to crown individual celebrities as…

It was Charlotte Zolotow, then a forty-eight-year-old senior editor in the Harper Books for Boys and Girls division,…

A spindle whorl doesn’t look like much. It’s a small cone, disk, or sphere made of a hard material such as stone,…

Many European nations pride themselves upon the quality and variety of their sweet baked foods. The Viennese have a…

Marriage ads reached their apogee in mid–19th century New York. Prominent champions of the genre included the New…

Covering the Gov. Alfred E. Smith presidential campaign in 1928, Lorena Hickok could not have imagined risking…

With the approach of Labor Day, chain stores across America fill with decor and foods that evoke a “traditional,”…

As viral content goes, the photograph was a blockbuster, accumulating more than ten million likes and three hundred…

Below is an excerpt from Nina Renata Aron’s Good Morning, Destroyer of Men’s Souls, a memoir about addiction, love,…

Below is an excerpt from The Queens of Animation. In the book, Nathalia Holt traces the careers of the women who…

From GOOD THINGS HAPPEN TO PEOPLE YOU HATE by Rebecca Fishbein, published by William Morrow. Copyright © 2019…

The first shot in the feminist abortion wars was fired in 1969 in a New York City Health Department auditorium,…

In my forthcoming book Republic of Lies, I spent a lot of time thinking about the primacy of conspiracy theories in…

Reprinted from Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments by Saidiya Hartman. Copyright © 2019 by Saidiya Hartman. Used…

Toni Morrison first delivered “Women, Race, and Memory” at Queens College, Queens, New York, May 8, 1989. The Source…

“One woman alone can’t do anything,” activist Eula Hall declared at the inaugural meeting of the Appalachian Women’s…