As a child growing up in Colorado, Illinois, and Vermont in the late 19th century, Florence Sabin lacked musical talent—but that ended ... What followed was a long and illustrious career that spawned ...

Nearly 125 years after Pablo Picasso painted one portrait, high-tech imaging tools have revealed a secret — another, earlier ...

This book also demonstrates how Black women at the time established their ... this book shines a light on an oft-overlooked giant in the early 20th century labor movement. Nannie Helen Burroughs ...

Early Indian photography became a dominant tool for representing regional identities in India, framing the “other”. These ...

In so doing, they consider what Japanese women’s experiences tell us more broadly about modern Japanese society at the time. What did it mean to be modern, for nations and people, in the early 20th ...

This collection brings together a selection of five short films from the BBC's archives, to help illustrate some of the changes in women's rights in the UK during the 20th century. Featuring ...

Author Charu Gupta’s fine-grained studies of lesser-known vernacular intellectuals and practitioners illuminate a whole range ...