Ph.D. candidate named Ruth Bader Ginsburg Predoctoral Fellow
By Emma Rothberg
June 9, 2021
The National Women’s History Museum has named Emma Rothberg, a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of History, as an inaugural U.S. Supreme Court Ru…
The Trailblazing Women of Stand-Up Comedy
By Mariana Brandman
The story of the female pioneers of American stand-up comedy often begins and ends with icons Phyllis Diller and Joan Rivers.
Who Was Pauli Murray?
On a recent episode of Amicus, Dahlia Lithwick discussed the legacy of Pauli Murray—a Black, non-binary, queer, feminist, civil rights pioneer who was also a poet, a teacher, a lawyer and legal…
Frances Perkins, 1911
by Heather Cox Richardson in Letters from an American
On March 25, 1911, Frances Perkins was visiting with a friend who lived near Washington Square in New York City when they heard fire engi…
SUE FORD and Village Marimba
Summer 2021 Village Marimba Classes for both youths and adults
WOMEN IN MUSIC
Women in Music is the industry’s leading non-profit working to advance the awareness, equality, diversity, heritage, opportunities, and cultural aspects of women i…
Radical Protests Propelled the Suffrage Movement. Here’s How a New Museum Captures That History
By Alli Hartley-Kong SMITHSONIANMAG.COM OCTOBER 26, 2020
The first of the “silent sentinel” protests occurred on January 10, 1917.
Mary Simon is sworn in as Canada’s first Inuk Governor General
Mary Simon was officially sworn in as Canada’s 30th governor general and is the first Indigenous person to hold the position. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnFl0s_CspE
The New Woman Behind the Camera
At The Met Fifth Avenue JULY 2–OCTOBER 3, 2021
Exhibition Overview – Exhibitions are free with Museum admission.
United States Mint’s American Women Quarters™ Program –
The National Women’s History Museum couldn’t be more excited to share the first five women selected for the United States Mint’s American Women Quarters™ Program:
Nikole Hannah-Jones declines UNC tenure offer, heads to Howard University
In an exclusive interview, Hannah-Jones reveals that she and fellow award-winning journalist Ta-Nehisi Coates will launch new Center for Democracy and Journalism at Washington, DC HBCU
Only person to win Nobel Prize in two different sciences
A leading figure in the history of sciences, Marie Curie was prohibited from higher education in her native Poland. Many years later, she became the first woman Nobel laureate. She remains the only…