In the heart of Colonial Williamsburg, the different roles women played in 18th-century society are evident. There are costumed interpreters like Deirdre Jones Cardwell and Katharine Pittman, who tell ...

Back in the 18th century, women didn’t have a lot of options outside of the marriage market. While in America there were plenty of “Boston marriages” between women of means, it wasn’t always a likely ...

Princess Dashkova led research institutes, wrote plays and music, and embarked on a Grand Tour of 18th-century Europe E.R. Zarevich Princess Dashkova (center) exchanged letters with Benjamin Franklin ...

Leah Ray has always had a love of history, but once she discovered reenacting, she said she fell down the rabbit hole. She portrayed “Private Lee” on Saturday at the Historic Hanna’s Town Frontier ...

“I tell people all the time, when I’m cooking I don’t necessarily have to measure anything,” says Shae Williams-Adams. “I just sprinkle until my ancestors tell me to stop.” Williams-Adams, 41, of ...

“Spooky Season” makes readers hungry for horror — a genre with literary roots in Gothic fiction. In that case, October is a time to highlight women’s writing — as the Gothic is fundamentally a women’s ...

Australian Catholic University provides funding as a member of The Conversation AU. Award-winning director Madeleine Hetherton-Miau’s latest offering is an evocative and hard-hitting documentary with ...

You’ve heard the legendary tale. But stitching America’s first flag is just a small part of the Betsy Ross story. Courageous rebel… Grieving widow… Working mom… Business owner… Survivor. When you ...

An artist’s rendering of Margarete Krieger’s “witch trial” in Pownal sometime around 1785. Courtesy photo/oPownal Historical Society Illustration courtesy of Pownal Historical Society NORTH POWNAL — ...

Austrian filmmaking duo Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala seemingly never met a remote woodland setting that didn’t feel like the right place to strand a traumatized woman. Following Goodnight Mommy ...