Many nineteenth-century women got their first taste of political activism in small-town societies advocating temperance and other moral causes. Alongside nation

How can the simple choice of a men’s suit be a moral statement and a political act? When the suit is made of free-labor wool rather than slave-grown cotton. I

Caroline, known as “Lina” to her family, has always lived in the shadow of her older brother William Herschel’s accomplishments. And yet when William invi