Influencers organizing around the hashtag #Tradwife have claimed the mantle of historical memory by tracing a line from Victorian wives and mothers to idealized 1950s housewives to themselves. They ...
A new exhibition spotlights James Tissot, whose paintings and prints reflected women’s ever-evolving roles in Victorian society Brigit Katz - Correspondent Works like Tissot's The Convalescent (1872), ...
This project started with a long-standing, large-scale data collection exercise that we’ve been doing to digitize the census of manufactures in the United States from 1850, 1860, 1870, and 1880. And ...