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Healoha Johnston, curator of Asian Pacific American women's cultural history at Asian Pacific American Center. Photo by Shuzo Uemoto.

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Curator Healoha Johnston Connects Asian Pacific American History to our Present

Gelatin silver print of Mary Church Terrell. Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Ray and Jean Langston in memory of Mary Church and Robert Terrell.

Historian Kate Clarke Lemay Says Winning the Right to Vote Was the Work of Many Lifetimes

Animation of silhouettes of women with large hats and long dresses on the street. The women in the foreground hold a banner that reads "Mr. President What Will You Do For Woman Suffrage" and the women in the background hold banners.

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Counting Down to the 100th Anniversary of the 19th Amendment with #19SuffrageStories

Meredith Holmgren holds a record that says "Different Therefore Equal / Peggy Sawyer." She stands in front of a shelf full of records.

Meredith Holmgren holds a Peggy Seeger record in the Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives. Photo courtesy of Meredith Holmgren.

Curator Meredith Holmgren Elevates American Women in Music

Illustration of eight girls sitting on a lawn and chatting. The girls represent a mix of different races. In the corner text reads "In school, we learn who gets to be a girl. How GIRLS should act. Which doors are opened to girls and which are closed."

Preview art for Girlhood (It's Complicated), an upcoming exhibition at the National Museum of American History.

"Girlhood (It's complicated)" Exhibition Preview

Oris Sanjur speaks at a podium. The words "Women in Science" are projected on a screen behind her.

Oris Sanjur, current acting director of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, speaking at the "Working Women: The Smithsonian Institution as a Case Study" symposium on December 18, 2019. Photograph by Michael Barnes.

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Call for American Women of Science Scholarly Symposium Proposals