The Journal of Social History publishes articles and reviews in all fields of social history, regardless of period and region. It seeks particularly to promote work in new topics in social history, ...

They didn’t know how bad it was. That was how James Redpath, a northern journalist who toured the South in the 1850s, explained white southern women’s support for slavery to his readers. He reckoned ...

1. New York and the evolution of sportswear 1929-39 : New York City ; Sportswear ; The modern sportswear aesthetic I -- 2. American body culture : Body image/body culture ; Health and hygiene ; ...

Florence Price wrote her Second String Quartet in the 1930s, using the sound of classical Europe to tell an unmistakably ...

A group of Black women, crucial to NASA’s achievements during the space race and famously known as the “Hidden Figures,” were honored with a Congressional Gold Medal ceremony on Capitol Hill. These ...