The Lady Journalist
byAt the turn of the century, women’s print culture exploded. Between increasing literacy and decreasing costs of printing, and the desire to circulate knowledge…
America
Fascinating Women: Bessie Smith and the Blues
byMany music historians–and historians in general–consider the musical genres that emerged from African-American communities at the turn of the century to be the first…
The Edwardian Debutante
byNo one in the Edwardian era made any bones about the fact that marriage was a woman’s sole career, and that she owed it…