New research is finding that some women in Viking Age Scandinavia were buried with war-grade weapons. Experts are divided ...

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Banned from flying in the U.S., these 25 American women headed to Britain to help ferry military aircraft—and fascinated the ...

In “Spitfires” by Becky Aikman, the saga of wartime American women pilots comes vividly to life.

"Superfine: Tailoring Black Style" is the first Costume Institute exhibit to focus exclusively on Black designers, and the ...

On view through June 29, the exhibition brings together decades of the late artist’s paintings telling the experiences of war ...

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Sophie Mousseau was photographed at Fort Laramie alongside six white Army officers. But her identity—and her life ...

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