The five artists featured in the exhibition—Evelyn Cameron, Fra Dana, Josephine Hale, Elisabeth Lochrie and Lora Webb Nichols—witnessed the rapid transformation of women’s roles in Western American ...

Reporting from Jerusalem — Clutching smuggled Torah scrolls, dozens of feminist activists approached the Western Wall, wrapping themselves in colorful prayer shawls and chanting passages from the ...

Zócalo Public Square is a magazine of ideas from Arizona State University Knowledge Enterprise. In the American imagination, the rugged, vast landscapes of the West are dotted with solitary men on ...

This photograph of Dorothy Morrell on “Skuball” taken in 1920 is among images in the “Western Women: What Makes a Cowgirl?” exhibition now on display at UW’s American Heritage Center. The photo is ...

In 1932, lanky, lantern-jawed Mildred (“Babe”) Didrikson, then famed only as a basketball player, proved at the Olympic Games that she was the world’s best woman track athlete. In 1934, she learned ...