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View from the back as a woman pulls up a webpage on her phone. In the background a poster reading “Unhidden Heroines” is visible.

See Familiar Monuments in a New Way as Five Women Who Shaped American History Come to Life Through Augmented Reality on the National Mall

Four interns stand for a picture in front of the Smithsonian Castle’s garden entrance.

Discover What It Takes to Build a New Smithsonian Museum. Meet Four Interns Bringing Women's History to Life

Women marching down the street holding a banner with the message “Equal jobs and educational opportunities!”

What Does Women’s Equality Day Really Commemorate? The Answer Goes Beyond 1920

Sarah Rogers Morris wearing a headband with three corndogs poking out stands behind an exhibition case with a vase containing corndogs and a ceramic hot dog.

Meet Three Research Assistants Who Traced Women's Stories From State Fairs to the Smithsonian Institution

A black and white gelatin silver print of Gertrude Ederle standing on the shore with a 1920s flotation device.

Discover the Story of Gertrude Ederle, an Olympic Gold Medalist and World Record Setter Who Made Waves as the First Woman to Successfully Swim the English Channel

Detailed photo of a bronze sculpture depicting George Washington, Polly Cooper, and Skenandoah from the waist up.

She Walked Over 200 Miles in the Snow to Feed a Starving Army. The Oneida Nation Has Remembered Polly Cooper for 250 Years

Black-and-white photo of Elizebeth Smith Friedman from the chest up

Elizebeth Smith Friedman Was the U.S. Government's First Woman Codebreaker. She Cracked Nazi Secrets, Saved 8,000 Lives and Pioneered Modern Cryptography

Julia Ward Howe posed seated with a book open on her lap.

Meet Julia Ward Howe, the Remarkable Poet Who Wrote the ‘Battle Hymn of the Republic’ and Fought for Women's Suffrage

Martin Luther King, Jr. stands at a podium with several microphones. Behind him to his left is a crowd of seated and standing people, including Dorothy Height, turned towards him.

Excluded at the March on Washington, Dorothy Height Went on to Become the ‘Godmother of the Civil Rights Movement.’ See How She Built a Movement with Women at the Center.

Text of the Declaration in two columns, with the names of the signers in four columns.

Every American Knows the Declaration of Independence. Almost Nobody Knows the Woman Who Printed It

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