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 ...

The Dobbs decision was supposed to be based on history. But it discounts the fact that the 18th-century woman was active and in control and could immediately tell whether terminating a pregnancy at a ...

There is only one Baroque woman sculptor whose signed sculptures have been preserved. She was Maria Faydherbe, she was ...

In Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the decision Alito wrote overruling 50 years of constitutional protection for women’s right to get an abortion, he deploys arguments that are based on ...

It’s the winter of 1790, and Rebecca Foster is testifying before the Massachusetts Court of Common Pleas. Refusing to spare her gossip-seeking neighbors the gruesome details, Rebecca recounts the ...

Justice Samuel Alito appears spellbound by the 19th century. In Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the decision Alito wrote overruling 50 years of constitutional protection for women’s ...