In this blog post, Jabour explores the multitude of women who dressed as men to fight—and die—in all the major battles of the Civil War. 'I Wanted to Do My Part': Women as Soldiers in Civil ...

On the last day of summer, in central Virginia, a battalion of Confederate soldiers marches in orderly ranks onto the field ...

Beloved by many female power players from Kamala Harris to Margaret Thatcher, the lavalière shirt is woven with history and ...

A long civil war that ended in 2003 decimated ... took to the streets to maintain a strict Islamic dress code that had been in place for women since 1979. Women who weren’t wearing head-to ...

The Civil War had begun ... to teach the freedmen, women, and children to read and write, thus giving an education to thousands of African Americans throughout the war. Though "contraband ...

During the Civil War, Walker became the ... of Representatives to support women’s suffrage in 1912 and 1914. The activist also bucked gender conventions of the time, regularly wearing pants and ...

The EmpowerWear campaign in Tulsa allows women to donate gently used clothing throughout October to support Dress for Success ...

Women pose such threats ... The Taliban are a product of the war of resistance against the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979 and the Afghan civil war that befell the country following the ...

A truce has been declared in Ethiopia's 16-month civil war ... call "rape as a weapon of war". The BBC's Kalkidan Yibeltal has spoken to some of the affected women in the neighbouring Amhara ...

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