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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.

Oil painting, Accused of Witchcraft, 1884, Douglas Volk, Corcoran Gallery.

Examine the verbatim transcripts of the 1692 Salem Witch Trials.

Print, [Women and a man in a room, United States, 1841], New York Public Library

Peruse this website to explore comments made by Tocqueville, Beaumont, and others on the early 19th-century American woman.

Photo, Octavia Estelle Butler, October 28, 2005, NikolasCo, Flickr

Learn about all of America's most famous female writers of color with this comprehensive website.

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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Spy in a Petticoat

map of 1776 British attack on Charleston

"She had outwitted the British and oh how they hated her." [...] »

Doris Ulmann Photograph Collection

Photo, Mr. Stewart, cross-tie maker. . . , Doris Ulmann, University of Oregon

See the faces of the rural South, and acquaint yourself with their folk arts. [...] »

North American Women's Letters and Diaries: Colonial Times to 1950

Poster, North American Women's Letters and Diaries, 2010, Alexander Street Press

Read the personal correspondence and diaries of women such as Phyllis Wheatley [...] »

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Children's Letters to Mrs. Roosevelt

Photo, Roosevelt, Eleanor, 1935, Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc.

What better way to make the past relevant to students than to engage them with [...] »

Abolitionist Speeches by African American Women

Video screencap, 31 July 2012

How do the speeches of Sojourner Truth and Frances Ellen Watkins Harper differ [...] »

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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As American as Mom…

Photo, "AT CALGGETT MEMORIAL HOSPITAL...," 1973, David Hiser, NARA

You know Mother's Day is all about mom, but do you know the history of the [...] »

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 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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