Now streaming on Netflix. According to Carroll Smith-Rosenberg, an author and expert in women’s history in the United States, psychiatrists during the Victorian era—or "alienists" as they were ...

And although she doesn't necessarily romanticize the Victorian era — "obviously things are better now socially, politically, all that stuff," she said — D'Incecco is able to travel back in ...

In the 1850s, the invention of the crinoline changed the silhouette and the structure of the basic wardrobe of the Victorian-era woman. Crinoline was a structure of steel or whalebone hoops ...

The Victorians saw the world changing. New technologies changed how we made and bought goods and Victorian era paintings show ...

In the Victorian era, women's wealth and dowry determined who they should marry. Through marriage, the husband would receive the dowry, making the woman dependent on the husband. Listen to this ...

The Fort Smith Museum of History is opening a new exhibit to honor Women's History Month and teach people about the role of women's fashion in the River Valley. The event "Threads of Time" will delve ...