women’s history

Beware of the Blond Woman: Gender, Sexuality and the State in Modern Germany

Lola Lola, played by Marlene Dietrich in the 1930 film The Blue Angel (Der blaue Engel), regales the […]

“A singularly intricate situation has developed in Washington”: Some Historical Background on Hobby Lobby

If Progressive Era birth control reformer Mary Ware Dennett hadn’t been cremated in 1947 immediately following her death, […]