Stories Read about the Smithsonian's latest scholarship on American women's history, get inspired with stories from our collections, and see other updates. Select a Theme Select a ThemeActivismArt & DesignEducationEntertainmentHealth & WellnessPublic ServiceScience & InnovationSportsWork Riveters Luedell Mitchell and Lavada Cherry at the El Segundo Plant of the Douglas Aircraft Company. National Archives and Records Administration. Story Rosie, Wendy, and Government Girls: The Women behind World War II (external link) “You're an Indian?” by Kay WalkingStick (Cherokee Nation), 1995. Lithographed with ink on Arches paper. National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution. Gift of the artist, 2016. Podcast Painter Maia Cruz Palileo Explores Artist Kay Walkingstick’s Career in New Podcast (external link) “Cadastral Shaking (Chicago V1),” by Amanda Williams, 2019. Blind debossment, screen and relief printing on archival paper, framed Edition 2 of 3, with 2 APs. Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, museum purchase through the American Women’s History Initiative Acquisitions Pool, administered by the Smithsonian American Women’s History Initiative, 2021-26-1. Photo by Tom VanEynde. Story Artist Amanda Williams Reimagines 1930s Chicago in a World without Redlining (external link) Image of 2022 Nina Otero-Warren quarter, part of the American Women Quarters™ Program. Copyright United States Mint. Used with permission. Story Nina Otero-Warren Improved Education and Fought for Suffrage Marge Villa baseball card for the AAGPBL’s Kenosha (Wisconsin) Comets, issued 1995. National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution. Story Latinas in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League (external link) Sazón Garifuna food truck. 2020. Photograph by John Nova Lomax for the Brays Oaks Management District, Houston TX Story Latina Entrepreneurs Past and Present (external link) Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, gift of Annie Leibovitz, © Annie Leibovitz Test Your Knowledge with Our "Women of Apollo" Quiz (external link) “Mary Golda Ross: Ad Astra per Astra(link is external)” by America Meredith (Cherokee Nation), 2011. Acrylic on canvas. National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution. Story Mary Golda Ross: Aerospace Engineer, Educator, and Advocate (external link) Geneva Townes Turner. Anacostia Community Museum, Smithsonian Institution. Story Transcription Volunteers Expand Access to Stories of African American Women Pagination First page First Previous page Previous Page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Current page 4 Page 5 Page 6 Page 7 Page 8 Page 9 … Next page Next Last page Last
Riveters Luedell Mitchell and Lavada Cherry at the El Segundo Plant of the Douglas Aircraft Company. National Archives and Records Administration. Story Rosie, Wendy, and Government Girls: The Women behind World War II (external link)
“You're an Indian?” by Kay WalkingStick (Cherokee Nation), 1995. Lithographed with ink on Arches paper. National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution. Gift of the artist, 2016. Podcast Painter Maia Cruz Palileo Explores Artist Kay Walkingstick’s Career in New Podcast (external link)
“Cadastral Shaking (Chicago V1),” by Amanda Williams, 2019. Blind debossment, screen and relief printing on archival paper, framed Edition 2 of 3, with 2 APs. Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, museum purchase through the American Women’s History Initiative Acquisitions Pool, administered by the Smithsonian American Women’s History Initiative, 2021-26-1. Photo by Tom VanEynde. Story Artist Amanda Williams Reimagines 1930s Chicago in a World without Redlining (external link)
Image of 2022 Nina Otero-Warren quarter, part of the American Women Quarters™ Program. Copyright United States Mint. Used with permission. Story Nina Otero-Warren Improved Education and Fought for Suffrage
Marge Villa baseball card for the AAGPBL’s Kenosha (Wisconsin) Comets, issued 1995. National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution. Story Latinas in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League (external link)
Sazón Garifuna food truck. 2020. Photograph by John Nova Lomax for the Brays Oaks Management District, Houston TX Story Latina Entrepreneurs Past and Present (external link)
Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, gift of Annie Leibovitz, © Annie Leibovitz Test Your Knowledge with Our "Women of Apollo" Quiz (external link)
“Mary Golda Ross: Ad Astra per Astra(link is external)” by America Meredith (Cherokee Nation), 2011. Acrylic on canvas. National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution. Story Mary Golda Ross: Aerospace Engineer, Educator, and Advocate (external link)
Geneva Townes Turner. Anacostia Community Museum, Smithsonian Institution. Story Transcription Volunteers Expand Access to Stories of African American Women
