Where are the women? For decades, that's been one of the National Mall's most glaring omissions. Starting Thursday, a new ...

As one of the only women planning the March on Washington, Dorothy Height organized the logistics, mobilized the crowds, and ...

The Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum today launched “Unhidden Heroines,” an augmented-reality experience on the ...

Unhidden Heroines’ pairs important women in US history with monuments on the National Mall commemorating men of their time ...

Since 2018, the American Women’s History Initiative Pool has funded more than 200 projects across the Smithsonian, supporting research, collections, and programming that make women’s history visible ...

Anyone with a smartphone (or a computer) will be able to conjure the presence of five women who helped shape the country over ...

The Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum launched “We Do Declare: Women’s Voices on Independence” today, Oct. 28. Through the lens of economic power, this multi-year oral history and education ...

WASHINGTON ‒ In a rare congressional effort crossing party lines, Democratic and Republican lawmakers are calling for funding for a new women's history museum on the National Mall that would join ...

The Democratic Women’s Caucus on Thursday helped end a transphobic bill seeking to fund the building of the Smithsonian Institution’s new Women’s History Museum, after Republicans added language in a ...

The National Women’s History Museum announced today that actress Meryl Streep has made a “significant seven-figure gift” to the institution. “History is shaped not only by those who make it, but by ...

Elizabeth C. Babcock, current president and CEO of Forever Balboa Park and forthcoming inaugural director at the Smithsonian American Women's History Museum (photo by Debora Cartwright, courtesy ...