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 Miniature transgender pride flag designed by Monica Helms, 1999. Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History. Story Why Activist and Veteran Monica Helms Designed the Transgender Pride Flag (external link) Design for Title Page, "Occupations of Women and Their Compensation," around 1899. Designed by Alice Cordelia Morse. Gift of Alice C. Morse. Image by Andrew Garn © Smithsonian Institution. Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum; Accession Number: 2009-6-55. Story Women Innovators: Honoring the Past, Inspiring the Future “Cutting Squash (Leah Chase)” by Gustave Blache III, 2010. Oil on panel. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of the artist in honor of Mr. Richard C. Colton, Jr. © Gustave Blache III Story Five Ways Black Women Shaped Food History "Madeleine Albright" by Timothy Greenfield-Sanders, 2005 (printed 2016). Inkjet print. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; acquired through the generosity of Eugene Eidenberg; 2017 Portrait of a Nation Prize Recipient. © 2005 Timothy Greenfield-Sanders Story Madeleine Albright, 1937–2022 (external link) Astronaut Sally Ride. NASA. Story First Woman Astronaut Dr. Sally Ride Honored on U.S. Quarter Debra Moore shaping blown glass, Chrysler Museum of Art Perry Glass studio, Norfolk, VA 2012 Visiting Artist Series. Photo by Echard Wheeler. Story Four Women Dedicated to the Science and Art of Orchids Hung Liu in her studio with “Rat Year 2020,” painted in 2020. Artwork is oil on linen and mixed media on wood panel, diptych. Photo by John Janca. Artwork © Hung Liu. Story Hung Liu’s Art Keeps History Close "I Go To Prepare A Place For You" by Bisa Butler, 2021. Cotton, silk, and velvet. Purchased through the American Women's History Initiative Acquisitions Pool, administered by the Smithsonian American Women's History Initiative, © Bisa Butler Collection Item Harriet Tubman: Life, Liberty and Legacy (external link) Photos of Dr. Crystal M. Moten, curator of African American history, and Dr. Krystal Klingenberg, curator of music, from the Smithsonian's National American History Museum. Podcast Explore Black Feminism with Collected, a New Podcast (external link) Pagination First page First Previous page Previous … Page 3 Page 4 Page 5 Page 6 Current page 7 Page 8 Page 9 Page 10 Page 11 … Next page Next Last page Last
Miniature transgender pride flag designed by Monica Helms, 1999. Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History. Story Why Activist and Veteran Monica Helms Designed the Transgender Pride Flag (external link)
Design for Title Page, "Occupations of Women and Their Compensation," around 1899. Designed by Alice Cordelia Morse. Gift of Alice C. Morse. Image by Andrew Garn © Smithsonian Institution. Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum; Accession Number: 2009-6-55. Story Women Innovators: Honoring the Past, Inspiring the Future
“Cutting Squash (Leah Chase)” by Gustave Blache III, 2010. Oil on panel. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of the artist in honor of Mr. Richard C. Colton, Jr. © Gustave Blache III Story Five Ways Black Women Shaped Food History
"Madeleine Albright" by Timothy Greenfield-Sanders, 2005 (printed 2016). Inkjet print. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; acquired through the generosity of Eugene Eidenberg; 2017 Portrait of a Nation Prize Recipient. © 2005 Timothy Greenfield-Sanders Story Madeleine Albright, 1937–2022 (external link)
Debra Moore shaping blown glass, Chrysler Museum of Art Perry Glass studio, Norfolk, VA 2012 Visiting Artist Series. Photo by Echard Wheeler. Story Four Women Dedicated to the Science and Art of Orchids
Hung Liu in her studio with “Rat Year 2020,” painted in 2020. Artwork is oil on linen and mixed media on wood panel, diptych. Photo by John Janca. Artwork © Hung Liu. Story Hung Liu’s Art Keeps History Close
"I Go To Prepare A Place For You" by Bisa Butler, 2021. Cotton, silk, and velvet. Purchased through the American Women's History Initiative Acquisitions Pool, administered by the Smithsonian American Women's History Initiative, © Bisa Butler Collection Item Harriet Tubman: Life, Liberty and Legacy (external link)
Photos of Dr. Crystal M. Moten, curator of African American history, and Dr. Krystal Klingenberg, curator of music, from the Smithsonian's National American History Museum. Podcast Explore Black Feminism with Collected, a New Podcast (external link)
