Blog 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 Portrait of Billie Jean King and the final match score over Bobby Riggs. Photo by dbking on Wikimedia Commons, licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license. Blog Post Beyond the Court: Billie Jean King's Triumph in The Battle of the Sexes Studio portrait of Jovita Idar, ca. 1905. General Photograph Collection/UTSA Libraries Special Collections Blog Post ¡Que Viva Jovita! Celebrating Journalist and Activist, Jovita Idar Mahalia Jackson (middle) with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (right) and an unidentified man, ca. 1960. Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Paul & Claire Blumenfeld. Blog Post Women Musicians Shined at the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom Shua Vue and Xue Lee standing next to a banana plant at the 2023 Smithsonian Folklife Festival, photograph courtesy of Diana Turnbow. Blog Post Hmong Women Are Part of the Food Economy of Arkansas Unidentified, [Seneca Falls, New York (upstream)], ca. 1850, daguerreotype, plate: 4 1⁄4 x 5 1⁄2 in. (10.8 x 14.0 cm.), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase from the Charles Isaacs Collection made possible in part by the Luisita L. and Franz H. Denghausen Endowment, 1994.91.232 Blog Post 175th Anniversary of the Seneca Falls Convention Sasha Daucus, photograph courtesy of the Smithsonian Folklife Festival Blog Post Smithsonian Folklife Festival 2023: Ozark Women Blog Post #ShineLikeSally Blog Post To Live and Breathe: Environmental Justice in Their Own Words Serena by Toyin Ojih Odutola, 2022. Pastel, charcoal and graphite on paper. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution. Acquired through the generosity of NIKE, Inc. Additional support provided by Lydia Cheney and Jim Sokol; Esusu Financial, Inc.; Wemimo Abbey & Samir Goel; Osagie & Losenge Imasogie; Madison Ruby Wilbourn. Blog Post Four New Portraits Honor Black Women at the Smithsonian Pagination Current page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Page 4 Page 5 Page 6 Page 7 Page 8 Page 9 … Next page Next Last page Last
Portrait of Billie Jean King and the final match score over Bobby Riggs. Photo by dbking on Wikimedia Commons, licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license. Blog Post Beyond the Court: Billie Jean King's Triumph in The Battle of the Sexes
Studio portrait of Jovita Idar, ca. 1905. General Photograph Collection/UTSA Libraries Special Collections Blog Post ¡Que Viva Jovita! Celebrating Journalist and Activist, Jovita Idar
Mahalia Jackson (middle) with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (right) and an unidentified man, ca. 1960. Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Paul & Claire Blumenfeld. Blog Post Women Musicians Shined at the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom
Shua Vue and Xue Lee standing next to a banana plant at the 2023 Smithsonian Folklife Festival, photograph courtesy of Diana Turnbow. Blog Post Hmong Women Are Part of the Food Economy of Arkansas
Unidentified, [Seneca Falls, New York (upstream)], ca. 1850, daguerreotype, plate: 4 1⁄4 x 5 1⁄2 in. (10.8 x 14.0 cm.), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase from the Charles Isaacs Collection made possible in part by the Luisita L. and Franz H. Denghausen Endowment, 1994.91.232 Blog Post 175th Anniversary of the Seneca Falls Convention
Sasha Daucus, photograph courtesy of the Smithsonian Folklife Festival Blog Post Smithsonian Folklife Festival 2023: Ozark Women
Serena by Toyin Ojih Odutola, 2022. Pastel, charcoal and graphite on paper. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution. Acquired through the generosity of NIKE, Inc. Additional support provided by Lydia Cheney and Jim Sokol; Esusu Financial, Inc.; Wemimo Abbey & Samir Goel; Osagie & Losenge Imasogie; Madison Ruby Wilbourn. Blog Post Four New Portraits Honor Black Women at the Smithsonian
