Does anyone recognize what's happening in this photo from the archives of the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette? Hint: The year was 1960. On Feb. 29, 1960, female employees of Pfeifers of Arkansas pretended ...

Radical Women shares the work of 120 Latin American and Latina artists from 15 different countries during times of intense political and social unrest. Even these impressive numbers, however, cannot ...

In 1960, women could expect to make 61 cents for every $1 a man made. While the earnings gap has narrowed and women now earn 78 cents for every dollar, the biggest jump since the recession, that is ...

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"Ladies should be dressed as ladies." That was a real reason one restaurateur gave for not allowing women to wear pants while dining there. But this wasn't in, say, the 1800s. This was just around ...

Fashion today celebrates self-expression, individuality, and personal freedom. However, many clothing styles now seen as normal or even tame would have been illegal, fined, or restricted by law in ...

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JANESVILLE -- Doris Schumacher Thom was just 10 years old when her father was killed in 1930, at the age of 46, while working as a train switchman for the Chicago and North Western Railway. The ...

If you are old enough to have any stereotypes at all about college life in the 1960s, the first things that probably popped into your head when you just read the phrase “college life in the 1960s” ...