Bonnie and Clyde: Public Enemies of the 1930s

They don’t do criminal names like they used to.  Baby Face Nelson, Pretty Boy Floyd, Machine Gun Kelly, Francis “Two Gun” Crowley, Alvin “Creepy” Karpis. Their names were known far and wide. The newspapers loved them. They say that “if it bleeds, it leads”, and the coverage of Depression-era criminals was no exception. Arguably no […]

John Stuart Mill and Women’s Rights in Victorian England

When we talk about the right to vote for women, we often think of the women who fought in the early twentieth century, but nineteenth-century men and women alike were questioning strict gender roles and the cultural presumptions made about women including philosophers Harriet Taylor Mill and John Stuart Mill. Read our guest blog post […]

Women’s History Month Teatime

March is Women’s History Month and here at History Unboxed® we figured that it’s time for a Women’s History Month teatime. Check out the graphic below to learn about how Women’s History Month came to be. We’ve compiled a list of poetry and short readings we think lend themselves well to a Women’s History Month […]