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 Close up of Kay WalkingStick, Two Women II. 1973, acrylic on canvas. Smithsonian American Art Museum. Museum purchase through the Luisita L. and Franz H. Denghausen Endowment, 2021.30.1, © Kay Walkingstick, 2017 Kay WalkingStick and the Indigenous Presence in American Landscape Painting (external link) Eugenie Clark collecting specimens on a dive. (Courtesy of Mote Marine Laboratory) Story Eugenie Clark - The Shark Lady (external link) National Museum of American History Story Girls Speak Out with Zines Amelia Earhart. National Air and Space Museum Archives, Smithsonian Institution. SI 79-6354. Meet Members of the Ninety-Nines (external link) Tennis racquet used by Althea Gibson. Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Donald Felder and family. Leveling the Playing Field: Althea Gibson and the Williams' Sisters (external link) "Re-Elect Patsy Mink” leaflet, around 1966. National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution. Gift of Honorable Patsy T. Mink. News Hearing the Voices of Women Leaders on Money, Power, and Policy Podcast Light of Freedom (external link) Photo of materials related to Zelia Nuttall's work by Smithsonian Libraries and Archives. Collection Item Tracing Anthropologist Zelia Nuttall Through Smithsonian Collections (external link) Portrait of Maria Tallchief by Philippe Halsman, 1956. Gelatin silver print on paper. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of Steve Bello in memory of Jane Halsman Bello. © Philippe Halsman Archive Story Leading Ballerina Maria Tallchief and Six More Women to Know this Native American Heritage Month Pagination First page First Previous page Previous … Page 5 Page 6 Page 7 Page 8 Current page 9 Page 10 Page 11 Page 12 Page 13 … Next page Next Last page Last
Close up of Kay WalkingStick, Two Women II. 1973, acrylic on canvas. Smithsonian American Art Museum. Museum purchase through the Luisita L. and Franz H. Denghausen Endowment, 2021.30.1, © Kay Walkingstick, 2017 Kay WalkingStick and the Indigenous Presence in American Landscape Painting (external link)
Eugenie Clark collecting specimens on a dive. (Courtesy of Mote Marine Laboratory) Story Eugenie Clark - The Shark Lady (external link)
Amelia Earhart. National Air and Space Museum Archives, Smithsonian Institution. SI 79-6354. Meet Members of the Ninety-Nines (external link)
Tennis racquet used by Althea Gibson. Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Donald Felder and family. Leveling the Playing Field: Althea Gibson and the Williams' Sisters (external link)
"Re-Elect Patsy Mink” leaflet, around 1966. National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution. Gift of Honorable Patsy T. Mink. News Hearing the Voices of Women Leaders on Money, Power, and Policy
Photo of materials related to Zelia Nuttall's work by Smithsonian Libraries and Archives. Collection Item Tracing Anthropologist Zelia Nuttall Through Smithsonian Collections (external link)
Portrait of Maria Tallchief by Philippe Halsman, 1956. Gelatin silver print on paper. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of Steve Bello in memory of Jane Halsman Bello. © Philippe Halsman Archive Story Leading Ballerina Maria Tallchief and Six More Women to Know this Native American Heritage Month
