Human history is much deeper, more complex, and more nuanced than you probably remember from school. Many history books, especially the ones you read in class, focus on major events like battles and ...

Natasha R. Hodgson had in the past received funding for research from the AHRC. The Teaching Medieval Women project which produced the research for the article receives internal funding for research ...

A BMJ article urges a revisiting of medical history, arguing that professionalization sidelined women’s roles in shaping which forms of medical knowledge become legitimate.

Throughout centuries of literature, women have written stories that changed the world. Their words broke barriers, sparked ...

In her groundbreaking trilogy, “Women Scientists in America,” she told the stories of numerous accomplished but largely invisible women. By Penelope Green Margaret W. Rossiter, a historian whose ...

Riverside’s better half is stepping into the spotlight. Women’s contributions over a century to Riverside’s civic fabric (and not with needle and thread) are the subject of a newly published book. Its ...

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