“Liberty Equality Fashion” explores radical shifts in fashion that embodied the ideas of the French Revolution and the women who led the charge. By Dina Gachman Most days, Anne Higonnet is able to ...

The mainstream media seems to be waiting for a clash between Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum and U.S. President Donald Trump. Both figures embody starkly different visions of the present moment.

Julia Ioffe is an award-winning Russian-born American journalist and author specializing in Russia-U.S. relations and ...

When you picture the American Revolution, you probably see powdered wigs, crowded battlefields and bold declarations of freedom. But what’s often missing from that mental image? The women. From ...

Matthew Skic, a curator at the Museum of the American Revolution in Philadelphia, has located the first portrayal of the Revolutionary War’s North Carolina Brigade in a private collection. The ...

They do not carry guns to fight the junta in Myanmar. Unlike women combatants in battle fatigues flaunting automatic weapons, their role in the resistance has gone by barely noticed. But they are ...

The London-based Perry, a journalist in her early 30s and a new mother, celebrates the gains of reliable family planning methods and professional opportunity which modernity has delivered to women.

When in 1979, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini led the Islamic Revolution, opposition to the Shah united most of Khomeini’s followers. While Khomeini spoke of an Islamic democracy and insisted he had ...

In “The Revolutionary Self,” the historian Lynn Hunt explores the way 18th-century culture transformed our sense of power in the world. “Two Ladies and an Officer Seated at Tea,” possibly English in ...

Every year I ask my female students at Occidental College if they played sports in high school. About half of them raise their hands. In fact, they take it for granted. They view women’s participation ...