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 Anna May Wong, by Carl Van Vechten, 1932. Gelatin silver print. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution. © Carl Van Vechten Trust Story Actress Anna May Wong Championed Asian American Representation in More than 60 Films Visitor responses to Girlhood at the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American History. Story What Does ‘Girl Power’ Really Mean? (external link) Portrait of S. Anesta Samuel by Rafael López. Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Latino. Story Six Latinas to Know View of astronaut Kathryn D. "Kathy" Sullivan, wearing a blue flight suit, aboard Space Shuttle Discovery (OV-103) in weightless conditions during Space Shuttle mission STS-31, April 24-29, 1990. National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution. (NASM-9A19277) Story Kathryn D. Sullivan: From Outer Space to Under the Sea (external link) Still image from Ana Mendieta’s Sweating Blood, 1973, single channel, super-8mm film transferred to high-definition digital media, color, silent; 03:18 min., Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase through the American Women's History Initiative Acquisitions Pool, Administered through the Smithsonian American Women's History Initiative, 2021.38, © The Estate of Ana Mendieta Collection LLC. Courtesy Galerie Lelong & Co. Licensed by Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY Story How Groundbreaking Artist Ana Mendieta Remembered Her Homeland Story Drawn to Art, New Comics About Women Artists (external link) Story Latina Identities in Art and Literature (external link) 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) Pagination First page First Previous page Previous Page 1 Page 2 Current page 3 Page 4 Page 5 Page 6 Page 7 Page 8 Page 9 … Next page Next Last page Last
Anna May Wong, by Carl Van Vechten, 1932. Gelatin silver print. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution. © Carl Van Vechten Trust Story Actress Anna May Wong Championed Asian American Representation in More than 60 Films
Visitor responses to Girlhood at the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American History. Story What Does ‘Girl Power’ Really Mean? (external link)
Portrait of S. Anesta Samuel by Rafael López. Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Latino. Story Six Latinas to Know
View of astronaut Kathryn D. "Kathy" Sullivan, wearing a blue flight suit, aboard Space Shuttle Discovery (OV-103) in weightless conditions during Space Shuttle mission STS-31, April 24-29, 1990. National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution. (NASM-9A19277) Story Kathryn D. Sullivan: From Outer Space to Under the Sea (external link)
Still image from Ana Mendieta’s Sweating Blood, 1973, single channel, super-8mm film transferred to high-definition digital media, color, silent; 03:18 min., Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase through the American Women's History Initiative Acquisitions Pool, Administered through the Smithsonian American Women's History Initiative, 2021.38, © The Estate of Ana Mendieta Collection LLC. Courtesy Galerie Lelong & Co. Licensed by Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY Story How Groundbreaking Artist Ana Mendieta Remembered Her Homeland
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)
