WOMEN are uncertain creatures, as a class and as individuals, — only to be counted on, according to popular (masculine) tradition, to scream at the sight of a mouse ; to impart any secret rashly ...

And though Aurelie didn’t take photographs on her grand tour, items in this show are representative of the places she went, the things she saw. Some are from the Exposition Universelle in Paris.

“In 1900 the Fifth Avenue Bank in New York City featured a special row of tellers’ windows for the ladies.” The Fifth Avenue Bank was one of the first banks in the United States to cater to its female ...

No one knew why the murder trial of Harriet Schmoll gripped the public’s imagination like it did in November 1900. The facts of the case were simple. Everyone knew Schmoll had shot her neighbor, Lulu ...

The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery will present “Brilliant Exiles: American Women in Paris, 1900–1939,” highlighting the myriad ways that American women contributed to the city’s vibrant ...

The UCLA Film & Television Archive is turning up the volume on silent cinema’s first “nasty women.” On Sunday, the UCLA Film & Television Archive will conclude “Cinema’s First Nasty Women,” a film ...