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 “Self-Portrait” by Romaine Brooks, 1923. Oil on canvas. Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the artist, 1966.49.1 Story Artist Romaine Brooks and More LGBTQ+ Women to Know Tiny Davis playing trumpet. International Sweethearts of Rhythm Collection, Archives Center, National Museum of American History. Story Six Musicians Who Led Social Change BioSuit (TM), Inventor, Science and Engineering, Professor Dava Newman, MIT, Design, Guillermo Trotti, A.I.A., Trotti and Associates, Inc. (Cambridge, MA), Fabrication, Dainese (Vicenza, Italy), Photography, Douglas Sonders, Courtesy Professor Dava Newman and Guillermo Trotti. Story Five Women Who Imagine a Hopeful Future Rafael López, 2021. National Museum of the American Latino. Collection Item Artist Judy Baca Embraces Community (external link) Image of 2022 Wilma Mankiller quarter, part of the American Women Quarters™ Program. Copyright United States Mint. Used with permission. Story Wilma Mankiller Led as the First Woman Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation Cher Strauberry using her first signature skateboard. Story A Place at the Park: LGBTQ+ Inclusion and Skateboarding (external link) Chien-Shiung Wu in the lab at Columbia University, March 20, 1963. Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 90-105, Science Service Records, Image No. SIA2010-1507 Story Chien-Shiung Wu, “The Chinese Marie Curie” (external link) Hazel Fellows. NASA, Courtesy of National Air and Space Museum Archives. Podcast Five Popular Women’s History Stories from Sidedoor, a Smithsonian Podcast A portrait photograph of Victoria Woodhull. C.D. Fredericks & Co., shared from Wikimedia Commons 150 Years Ago, Victoria Woodhull Ran for President Before Women Had the Right to Vote (external link) Pagination First page First Previous page Previous Page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Page 4 Current page 5 Page 6 Page 7 Page 8 Page 9 … Next page Next Last page Last
“Self-Portrait” by Romaine Brooks, 1923. Oil on canvas. Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the artist, 1966.49.1 Story Artist Romaine Brooks and More LGBTQ+ Women to Know
Tiny Davis playing trumpet. International Sweethearts of Rhythm Collection, Archives Center, National Museum of American History. Story Six Musicians Who Led Social Change
BioSuit (TM), Inventor, Science and Engineering, Professor Dava Newman, MIT, Design, Guillermo Trotti, A.I.A., Trotti and Associates, Inc. (Cambridge, MA), Fabrication, Dainese (Vicenza, Italy), Photography, Douglas Sonders, Courtesy Professor Dava Newman and Guillermo Trotti. Story Five Women Who Imagine a Hopeful Future
Rafael López, 2021. National Museum of the American Latino. Collection Item Artist Judy Baca Embraces Community (external link)
Image of 2022 Wilma Mankiller quarter, part of the American Women Quarters™ Program. Copyright United States Mint. Used with permission. Story Wilma Mankiller Led as the First Woman Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation
Cher Strauberry using her first signature skateboard. Story A Place at the Park: LGBTQ+ Inclusion and Skateboarding (external link)
Chien-Shiung Wu in the lab at Columbia University, March 20, 1963. Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 90-105, Science Service Records, Image No. SIA2010-1507 Story Chien-Shiung Wu, “The Chinese Marie Curie” (external link)
Hazel Fellows. NASA, Courtesy of National Air and Space Museum Archives. Podcast Five Popular Women’s History Stories from Sidedoor, a Smithsonian Podcast
A portrait photograph of Victoria Woodhull. C.D. Fredericks & Co., shared from Wikimedia Commons 150 Years Ago, Victoria Woodhull Ran for President Before Women Had the Right to Vote (external link)
