Led entirely by women, the American Female Moral Reform Society gave material aid to those in need and pushed for men to be ...

Indeed, immigrants came to America seeking land that they could farm. But throughout the nineteenth century, the population living in cities rose faster than the rural population. As the 1800s ...

In the last half of the 19th century, America underwent a series of changes ... A technological revolution had taken hold in the country's cities, with new factories employing thousands of ...

In the 19th century, the heyday of American mobility ... her Remington and pounded out The Death and Life of Great American Cities. Her book, published in 1961, took aim at urban renewal and ...

Though local suffrage slowly opened to women in many states, suffragists continued their fight for national voting rights through the 19th century. Mocked, jailed, beaten, and force-fed ...