Bendites, we’ve got our outdoor sports dialed. The means by which we sweat and socialize is so often wrapped up in our identity, we might as well introduce ourselves not by what we do for money but ...

March 25: “Hurrah, and vote for suffrage! Don’t keep them in doubt.” —Febb Burn, a 47-year-old widow, in a letter to her son, Harry T. Burn, 24, a freshman legislator in Tennessee who held the pivotal ...

A lush translation of this late-discovered lesbian poet added to the legacy of Sappho, but there was a trickster at work ...