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Women's History Month
Women's History Month Each year, the Smithsonian honors Women's History Month with a calendar full of activities. Visit the Women's History Month website each March for more information on the events in the Washington, DC area.
Women's History Month Calendar
Smithsonian Women Scientist
Smithsonian Women Scientist Smithsonian women scientists are an adventurous group: from hunting meteorites in Antarctica, exploring the farthest reaches of the Universe from remote mountain tops, to measuring mercury levels from the depths of the ocean to the canopy of the rain forest. Learn more about a few of these amazing women.
Smithsonian Women Scientists
Winning the Vote for Women
Winning the Vote for Women For more than a century, women in the United States struggled to obtain the right to vote. In 1920, the suffrage movement finally achieved victory with the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution. By using the “Winning the Vote for Women” OurStory module, children and adults can enjoy exploring the history of the women's suffrage movement and women's roles in civic life today.
Winning the Vote for Women
Photographs of Women on Flickr
Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney Explore and download images from a Smithsonian photostream on Flickr featuring historic photographs related to Women’s History Month.
Women's History Photos on Flickr
Heritage Month on Smithsonian Folkways
Heritage Month on Smithsonian Folkways If you’re interested in that broadest of all musical categories, “world music,” you won’t find a better site than Smithsonian Folkways, which contains 40,000 tracks from the Smithsonian Folkways archives. Albums and individual songs are available for purchase and download. For Women’s History Month, Smithsonian Folkways offers free audio tracks and videos featuring women around the world who “break musical barriers.” Lesson plans and student activities are included.
Heritage Month on Smithsonian Folkways
Women in Aviation and Space History
First woman in space This website features women's contributions to flight, their stories, and claims to fame throughout history. This guide leads to all the women that have artifacts or photographs in the National Air and Space Museum.
Women in Space
Setting the Precedent: Women who excelled in Business
Brownie Wise This virtual tour introduces four exceptional American women who succeeded in business in the twentieth century. The website features biographical information, timelines, games, and historical background for each of the women.
Four Women Who Excelled in Business
Recommended Books about African American Women Artists
Edmonia Lewis The Anacostia Museum and Center for African American History and Culture prepared this annotated bibliography on African American Women Artists.
Recommended Books
Recommended Books about Native American Women
Native American Artist A list of recommended readings about Native American women prepared by the National Museum of the American Indian Resource Center.
Recommended Books about Native American Women
Harriet Tubman, a selected Children’s Bibliography
Harriet Tubman The Anacostia Museum's Office of Education offers a reading list for children about Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad.
A Selected Children's Bibliography


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