Before humans knew about the importance of vitamin C, seafarers in the 18th century would set sail with ... a case of scurvy ...
Without the help and expertise of enslaved or hired servants, the tasks near the stone or brick fireplace for a typical 18th ...
About 90% of English women in the 18th Century worked outside the home, like this shellfish seller painted by William Hogarth in the 1740s The belief that sex before marriage was unusual in the ...
How were women discriminated against in the art world back then? Even in the late 18th Century, women weren’t allowed to train at the same art academies as men. Women weren’t allowed to draw ...
The old woman blames her daughter-in-law for her ... weaving a remarkably vivid tapestry of 18th-century life in a rural peasant community - villagers picking up stones from the field, or lining ...
Formerly known as Bussey Street, Flora Way was dedicated by Harvard University and local officials to the woman who lived in the neighborhood during the 18th century. Boston Mayor Michelle Wu ...