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Caribbean Americans have been active participants in the shaping of this country.

The dining room in the Gilded Age home was expected to dazzle guests with its sumptuous elegance.

On the morning of February 20, 1917, an army of some 400 angry mothers climbed the steps of New York City’s City Hall.

Female television game show hosts have been few and far between.

Esther Gordy Edwards was the woman behind Motown Records.

On September 20, 1973, Bobby Riggs faced off against Billie Jean King in a battle of the sexes.

Gloria Steinem created Take Our Daughters to Work Day to help show girls that they could do anything.

Let's adventure back to Colonial America—a time of exploration, revolution, taverns and….fast food?

Equal Pay Day is chosen each year to symbolize the gender wage gap.

As the South confronted the so-called “woman question” in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the most bitterly contested issue was woman suffrage.

There was once a time where you could get arrested for voting.

Coverture is a long-standing legal practice that holds that no female person has a legal identity.

The social conventions which bound women exclusively to home and hearth, kept them away from the ballot box prevailed for decades.

Nursing may be the oldest known profession, as some nurses were paid for their services from the beginning.

The real story behind the movie North Country.