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Women's History Month

Print, Women awake! Your country needs you--Learn to be of national service - join the Navy League--Help the Navy - local headquarters, Hazel Roberts, 1916, Library of Congress

March is Women's History Month. From the battlefield to the home, from business to the campaign trail, learn about U.S. women in all walks of life.

How does a political cartoon use popular beliefs about women to make its point? Historian TJ Boisseau examines the conventions in this image.

Negative, "Suffragetes on way to Boston," LoC, Flickr Commons

Relive the dream of the women's vote through roleplay or interfacing with primary documents.

Photo. Jessie Lloyd with an unidentified group. 1928

Source documents to help you approach 20th-century feminism.

Were all of the women who fought for women's suffrage fighting for the same reasons? Far from it, says historian Ronald Walters. Primary sources show that women saw their struggle many different ways. FIND OUT MORE »

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Fly Girls

Image, American Experience: Fly Girls, PBS.

Explore the experiences of World War II's Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASPs [...] »

U.S. Women's History Workshop

Illustration, The Sphere of Woman, March 1850, Godey's Lady's Book.

A collection of primary source material for teaching women's history and mid- [...] »

Emma Goldman Papers

Photograph, Emma Goldman, Sept. 10, 1901, Library of Congress.

Learn more about Emma Goldman, radical and feminist activist, through this [...] »

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Women's Rights: Sarah Bagley Letters

What do these letters from a women's rights activist reveal about social causes [...] »

Cherokee Law of Blood

Photo, . . . a Cherokee Indian 'squaw' and her 'papoose, 1939, TN Archives

A Cherokee Nation Supreme Court document reveals the fluidity of racial [...] »

The Salem Witch Trials

There is a flock of yellows birds above her head, HarpWeekly

Absolving the guilty and punishing the innocent. Historian Elizabeth Reis looks [...] »

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Probing Probate

Probate, Sarah Green, 1759, Probing the Past, Roy Rosenzweig CHNM

How do we know what people in the past owned and valued? [...] »

Women's History Month: Picturing Pocahontas

Print, Pocahontas at the court of King James, 1907, Richard Rummels, LoC

What do you picture when you hear her name? [...] »

Women in the Lab (and the Field)

Photo, Miss Margaret D. Foster [...] Library of Congress

Marie Curie and Jane Goodall—you may know these female scientists, but [...] »

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