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.

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 ...

More than 206 women played baseball in a minor league on a daily basis. So when baseball season started up in the spring, the first ever All-American Girls Baseball League was established.

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 ...

Joyce DuBow is 46 years old and was married at the age of 30. She has two children. Her first child was born when she 34 years old; her last when she was 37. DuBow, who has an undergraduate degree … ...

The 1940s was marked by one defining event: World War II. From 1939 to 1945, the entire globe was on high alert. ... Models walk in a show about British fashion for American women.

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 ...

Amazon recently released a series that reboots the 1992 film “A League of Their Own,” about the Rockford Peaches, one of 15 teams in the World War II-era All-American Girls Professional ...

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.

An American woman, Anna Katharine Green, enjoys the distinction of introducing the world's first series detective, Ebenezer Gryce, in her novel "The Leavenworth Case," published in 1878 — nine ...