The cultural and economic history of the spinster.

The struggle for the standard eight-hour workday in Chicago was a bitter one.

The origins of the controversial phrase Welfare Queen.

Sarah Browne’s neglect of Lincoln, compared with the ceaseless remembrance of her daughter, did not lessen her desolation over the assassination.

The unsettling story of Barnum's White Elephant.

While women's prisons historically emphasized the virtues of traditional femininity, the conditions of these prisons were abominable.