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 Line art of publisher Anne Catharine Hoof Green, the Sweet Bay Magnolia, and performer Marian Anderson courtesy of the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Gardens, and Smithsonian Digital Studios. News New Coloring Booklet Celebrates Women throughout History Album cover for Nobuko Miyamoto’s 120,000 Stories, 2021. Produced by Smithsonian Folkways Recordings. Story Folk Musician Nobuko Miyamoto and Eight More Women to Know this Asian Pacific American Heritage Month Ruth Asawa photographed by Mimi Jacobs, 1973. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution. Collection Item How Ruth Asawa's Sculptures "Enchanted" Los Angeles (external link) Vitullo Evidence Collection Kit for Sexual Assault Examination. Collection of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History and 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. Photo by Jaclyn Nash. Story Four Curators Discuss Marty Goddard’s Sexual Assault Evidence Kit Podcast The Many Inventions of Beatrice Kenner (external link) Cover of Hispanic magazine, April 1993. Gift of Linda Alvarado. Story Three Latinas Who Made Baseball History "Rejecting Injustice," "Offering Life," and "Offering Education" by Elizabeth Catlett, 2003. Bronze. National Museum of African American History and Culture. Gift from the Unit Owners Association of the Offices at Terrell Place, a Condominium, Beacon Capital Partners, LLC and AARP. Conservation for these sculptures received Federal support from the Collections Care Initiative Fund, administered by the Smithsonian American Women’s History Initiative and the National Collections Program. © 2020 Catlett Mora Family Trust/Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY. Story Elizabeth Catlett Showcased Issues Through Her Art (external link) Dr. Patricia Cowings, Project Manager of the Psychophysiological Lab, Principal Investigator of the Autogenic Feedback Training Experiment Studying Motion Sickness. NASA. Story Six Women Whose Innovations Changed Science and Engineering Podcast Broad Stripes, Bright Stars, and White Lies (external link) Pagination First page First Previous page Previous … Page 2 Page 3 Page 4 Page 5 Current page 6 Page 7 Page 8 Page 9 Page 10 … Next page Next Last page Last
Line art of publisher Anne Catharine Hoof Green, the Sweet Bay Magnolia, and performer Marian Anderson courtesy of the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Gardens, and Smithsonian Digital Studios. News New Coloring Booklet Celebrates Women throughout History
Album cover for Nobuko Miyamoto’s 120,000 Stories, 2021. Produced by Smithsonian Folkways Recordings. Story Folk Musician Nobuko Miyamoto and Eight More Women to Know this Asian Pacific American Heritage Month
Ruth Asawa photographed by Mimi Jacobs, 1973. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution. Collection Item How Ruth Asawa's Sculptures "Enchanted" Los Angeles (external link)
Vitullo Evidence Collection Kit for Sexual Assault Examination. Collection of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History and 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. Photo by Jaclyn Nash. Story Four Curators Discuss Marty Goddard’s Sexual Assault Evidence Kit
Cover of Hispanic magazine, April 1993. Gift of Linda Alvarado. Story Three Latinas Who Made Baseball History
"Rejecting Injustice," "Offering Life," and "Offering Education" by Elizabeth Catlett, 2003. Bronze. National Museum of African American History and Culture. Gift from the Unit Owners Association of the Offices at Terrell Place, a Condominium, Beacon Capital Partners, LLC and AARP. Conservation for these sculptures received Federal support from the Collections Care Initiative Fund, administered by the Smithsonian American Women’s History Initiative and the National Collections Program. © 2020 Catlett Mora Family Trust/Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY. Story Elizabeth Catlett Showcased Issues Through Her Art (external link)
Dr. Patricia Cowings, Project Manager of the Psychophysiological Lab, Principal Investigator of the Autogenic Feedback Training Experiment Studying Motion Sickness. NASA. Story Six Women Whose Innovations Changed Science and Engineering