The 1940s Women Marines played a crucial role during World War II, stepping into vital military support positions while men were deployed overseas. ... How an American was elected pope.

Once American women got the right to vote in 1920, ... laws evolved and by the 1940s women born in the U.S. no longer had to limit their marriage prospects to native-born men or naturalized citizens.

According to The Encyclopedia of American Economic History between 1940 and 1944, the number of working women rose from 12 million to 20 million. That’s a 57% increase. Hot diggity dog, that’s ...

In the popular imagination, the 1940s were dominated by sacrifice at home and violence abroad as World War II raged on. But at a new exhibition at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, curators aim to ...

You’d have to go back 74 years to observe similar living arrangements among American young women. Young men, too, are increasingly living in the same situation, but unlike women their share hasn’t ...

A trio of stylish women and their accessories, c. 1940s Science & Society Picture Library/Getty Images The Rise of American Designers New York Was Put on the Fashion Map ...

R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company marks its 150th anniversary this year. Known for brands like Camel, its lesser-known history ...

How the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League of the 1940s and '50s helped pave the way for the landscape of women’s sports today.