Two women in the 1890s. (Credit: PYMCA/UIG via Getty Images)

Susan B. Anthony, 1865. (Credit: Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty images)

J. Howard Miller’s ‘We Can Do It!’ poster for Westinghouse Electric, aimed at boosting morale among the company’s workers in the war effort later associated with ‘Rosie the Riveter,' the wartime personification of a strong female war production worker.

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The gay rights movement is the struggle for equality and marriage rights for gay, lesbian and transgender people. Milestones include the Stonewall Riots, the trial of Oscar Wilde and the assassination of Harvey Milk.

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In the Roaring Twenties, a surging economy created an era of mass consumerism, as Jazz-Age flappers flouted Prohibition laws and the Harlem Renaissance redefined arts and culture.

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World War II was the biggest and deadliest war in history, involving more than 30 countries. Sparked by the 1939 Nazi invasion of Poland, the war dragged on for six bloody years until the Allies defeated the Axis powers of Nazi Germany, Japan and Italy in 1945. Explore the battles, leaders and atrocities from the war and its impact on geopolitics and humankind.

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Though the 19th century saw the rise of populism, the labor movement and Jacksonian democracy, it also ushered in the Gilded Age, when men like Cornelius Vanderbilt and J. P. Morgan wielded vast control over politics and business.

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Uncovering the Secret Identity of Rosie the Riveter

The Shocking Infanticide Trial That Exposed Sexual Harassment in 1868

Until 1975, ‘Sexual Harassment’ Was the Menace With No Name

Women Got ‘Married’ Long Before Gay Marriage