Vast Public Indifference

While perusing the Plymouth epitaphs, I found several gravestones dedicated to women who outlived their husbands by several decades. I suppo...

Recently, I was thumbing through the Boston city directory for 1798 and noticed that many women were identified by their non-domestic profes...

Yesterday afternoon was gorgeous, so I took RJO's advice and visited the Phipps St. Cemetery in Charlestown. This is a beautiful graveya...

On this date in 1777, John Boyle wrote the following entry in his journal: A Female Riot. — About 100 Women from the North-Part of the Town...