Minerva Parker Nichols was the first woman in America to open her own architecture practice. She, however, didn’t get nearly ...

Apart from the Underground Railroad, during the American Civil War, Northern and Southern women used their creative and technical abilities to support the war effort on their respective home ...

In the 1880s, when men worked long days and women were mostly cut off from the workforce, the typical American married couple averaged just over 68 hours of weekly paid labor. In 1965, as men’s ...