A woman whose life story sounds like something out of a fairy tale or a legend. A woman who, centuries ago, accomplished ...

Violence against women has been accepted and even condoned throughout history. More than 2,000 years ago, Roman law gave a man life and death authority over his wife. In the 18th Century ...

Rind’s surviving correspondence, a rare record from an 18th-century woman of her social status and young age, conveys the profound loss and uncertainty she faced in a foreign land. As she told ...