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 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) 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 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
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
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
