Erin Blakemore

Today's diners would surprise a 1940s patron. These restaurants were once vulgar boy’s clubs before becoming today's family-friendly establishments.

Buying a necktie for your dad is a stereotypical way to celebrate Father's Day, but it's in keeping with the holiday's history.

Woody Guthrie’s “This Land Is Your Land” has lost a bit of its protest oomph—in part because of a decades-long denial of its later verses.

Godey’s Lady’s Book, one of the most influential American publications of the nineteenth century, tried to halt the Civil War.

William Wrigley, Jr. started selling soap and became a prodigy of consumerism.

A Southern governor proclaimed April Confederate Heritage Month. Will slavery be mentioned?

Jeanette Rankin was the first woman to become a member of the U.S. House of Representatives. And she once tried to outlaw war.

Edgar Allan Poe knew that readers would add their visual image of the author to his work to create a personality that informed their reading.

The founders of Women’s Studies were overwhelmingly white, and focused on the experiences of white, heterosexual women.

Flora Rose and Martha Van Rensselaer lived in an open lesbian relationship and helped found the field of home economics.

In the 1920s, women's love of driving in auto-obsessed Los Angeles created traffic jams and a battle over women’s rightful place.