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  Elisabeth West FitzHugh examining an Islamic manuscript. Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Conservation and Scientific Research department files, 1958-01, photograph by Ray Schwartz.

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  Elisabeth West FitzHugh, a Driving Force in Cultural Heritage Science and Conservation

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  Olympic Bonus: Shredding Skateboarding’s Glass Ceiling

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  "Marker" by Rania Hassan. Photo courtesy of Golden Triangle BID.

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  "Monument and Marker" Celebrates the Communal Power of Making Things

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  Section of "Snoopy--Early Sun Display on Earth" by Alma Thomas.1970, acrylic on canvas. Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Vincent Melzac, 1976.140.1.

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  Using Science to Uncover Secrets of Alma Thomas

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   Maya Angelou (left) and Sally Ride (right). Public domain via Wikimedia Commons.

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  Maya Angelou, Sally Ride to Be Among First Women Featured on U.S. Quarters

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  Judi Oyama for Santa Cruz Skateboards, 1970s. Smithsonian's National Museum of American History.

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  Writing Asian American and Pacific Islander Women Back into History with Wikipedia

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  The Goddess of Broadway

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  Bessie Coleman Earns Her Pilot's License

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  Photograph of Pearle Bailey, silver and photographic gelatin on photographic paper. Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. 

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  Five You Should Know: Black Actresses Who Refused to Be Typecast

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