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Newport offered rare opportunities for Black prosperity and dignity during the Gilded Age. How much did the show get right?
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Julie Hart Beers was among the dozens of women who made their mark in majestic landscape painting despite the obstacles.
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As a historical drama, The Gilded Age does its best to stay true to the time period in which it is set, the 1880s. Although ...
How Claire McCardell changed women’s fashion ...
Black women's beauty and fashion are complex, meaningful acts, deliberate strategies for engaging with the world that make bold statements about identity, political resistance and empowerment ...
The skort (a portmanteau of skirt and shorts) has played a truly unique role in the history of women’s clothing. They were ...
The Designer Who Set Women Free, author Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson tells the story of the woman who toed the line between ...
1971 – The Royal Commission on the Status of Women is released and Canadian laws start changing to provide equal rights for ...
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If you find yourself on Capitol Hill in this heat wave, get relief at a bit of a strange-looking piece of D.C. history: the Capitol grounds’ Summerhouse.