KIRSTEN ANN SMITHERMAN. ‘In this enlightened age’: Marriage and Enlightenment in Revolutionary America. (Under the direction of DR. CHRISTOPHER CAMERON)This study explore[...]

Between 1419 and 1536, five English noble women, including three queen consorts, stood accused of witchcraft: Joan of Navarre, queen of Henry IV; Eleanor Cobham, Duchess [...]

An anonymous author in 1837 lamented that "if the world were just" the term Old Maid, instead of a pejorative, would "be a synonyme(sp) of useful virtue." While scholars [...]

This thesis is a case study that explores the life and influence of Mary Boleyn, royal mistress to King Henry VIII from 1522-1525. The intent is to present an analysis of[...]

Studies on historical representations of anarchists tend to focus on terrorist depictions and how they compare to the actual activities of the anarchist movement. Using B[...]

The oldest mill in Belmont, North Carolina still stands today. Almost one hundred and fifteen years old, the Chronicle Mill has made a legacy for the small town of Belmon[...]

During the late nineteenth century, British women received better education, especially at the university level. In particular, the University of Cambridge opened two wom[...]

The Northern Irish Troubles lasted for almost thirty years, from 1969 to 1998. Variousscholars have studied many aspects of this conflict, but women in loyalist and repub[...]

In this blog post, Amanda Pipkin draws attention to a little known Dutch editor and biographer, making the important argument that because “authorship” can take many form[...]

Women and gender in the early modern Low Countries, 1500-1750 brings together research on women and gender across the Low Countries, a culturally contiguous region that w[...]