A new exhibition spotlights James Tissot, whose paintings and prints reflected women’s ever-evolving roles in Victorian ...

Schuyler Colfax, a former VP from Indiana, met his demise while on the lecture circuit in Minnesota during a cold stretch in ...

The death of a young woman in 1830s New England resulted in the trial of her minister. Was it murder or suicide?

Jefferson, without thinking of it, was quite in the fashion when he finished a letter ... and long queues of hunger-stricken women and children besieged every bakers shop, and on cards of ...

Calvin Coolidge was born on the fourth of July, 1872, in the little mountain village ... with such vast contact with men and women of all sorts, and even the apparent need of such contact.

The Women’s Suffrage National Monument, which will be the Mall’s first dedicated to women’s history, overcame congressional ...

Exploring how First Lady fashion became political theater, from Jackie O to Melania Trump,revealing gender bias where women's ...

Designers drop their resistance to the right as Usha Vance, Ivanka Trump and others set a new tone of American conservatism.

In this way, it might be easy to fall into the idea that clothing is as symbolically frivolous as the fashion naysayers often ...

If men gave birth, would midwives earn the same as footballers? If men gave birth, would perineal tears still be considered ...

Inauguration fashion statements from the first lady — as well as the second. Credit...Doug Mills/The New York Times Supported by By Vanessa Friedman The author has covered political image-making ...