Augusta Theodosia Drane, a 19th-century English religious leader , published works including poetry, histories, essays and ...

The Greenwich Village rowhouse housed one of NYC's most successful 19th-century African American businessmen and one of its first Off-Off-Broadway theaters.

Anger, humour and irreverence mark the poems in the new anthology, Wild Women. Writers include a former courtesan, a ...

From its inception at the hands of Mary Shelley in 1818 (scholars nowadays unanimously agree that Frankenstein, or, The ...

At Dublin’s 48 Gardiner St. Lower, a plaque honors the boyhood home of Greek-Irish writer Patrick Lafacadio Hearn, who is ...

Copycat classicism is here. Literary re-enactments by the photographer Stan Douglas — and a wave of other remixers — are ...

Over the past 100 years, right-wing politicians have used racist tropes to stoke white fears of being powerless.

Made Trade compiled a brief history of women and textiles in the United States, drawing on historical museum documents, ...

A new biography gives the fullest portrait yet of the Palestinian-Lebanese writer May Ziadé, who presided over a famous ...

From financing expeditions in the New World to founding hospitals and schools, these women were incredibly influential—and ...

At Southern Miss, the Women's and Gender Studies (WGS) Program offers both an undergraduate and a graduate minor. In addition to courses specific to the program, we offer classes in a variety of ...

The remains of Colleen Monfore, a retired American woman, were found inside a shark near Indonesia after she disappeared while diving. A friend suggests Monfore possibly died from a medical issue ...