In the heart of Colonial Williamsburg, the different roles women played in 18th-century society are evident. There are costumed interpreters like Deirdre Jones Cardwell and Katharine Pittman, who tell ...

Eighteenth-century socialites have been depicted as vain, silly women who were poisoned by their white lead makeup. The Countess of Coventry, Maria Gunning — a society hostess reknowned for her beauty ...

On Saturday, the Alliance for Historic Hillsborough put on their annual Revolutionary War Living History Day, better known as “Rev War Day.” At the Orange County Historical Museum, a new exhibit was ...

Cristina Roccati graduated from the University of Bologna when few other Italian women earned degrees, and she taught physics for decades Manuela Callari This portrait of Cristina Roccati (left) is by ...