Women's History Stories
It's time to celebrate fascinating American women—many of whom have not gotten the attention they deserve. Women such as Reverend Dr. Anna Pauline “Pauli” Murray, the brilliant legal mind who co-founded the National Organization of Women and became an Episcopal saint. Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, the heiress who rebelled against her high-society upbringing to open a studio and encourage American artists. Jane Jacobs, the urban activist whose work presaged so many of our recent findings about the benefits of older buildings for cities. Madam C.J. Walker, a self-made millionaire who broke gender and racial barriers with her pioneering business models. Ann Pamela Cunningham, who brought Northern and Southern women together after the Civil War to save Mount Vernon, and who is effectively the American founder of the preservation movement. These are just a few of the remarkable women whose stories we at the National Trust strive to tell in recognition of women's role in American history. Explore their stories—and many more connected to women's history in the United States—through the stories and places below.
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Preservation Magazine A Storied Los Angeles Club for African American Women Looks to the Future -
Where Women Made History Women's Work: Joan Hinton and the Manhattan Project -
African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund A Descendant’s Fight to Preserve Her Ancestors’ History -
Where Women Made History Archaeology Reveals the Hidden History of Amache Ochinee Prowers -
Where Women Made History The Fight for Preservation Continues at Connecticut’s Mary and Eliza Freeman Houses -
Preservation Magazine In Raleigh, North Carolina, a Family Keeps an Artist's Unique Home and Gardens Blooming -
Where Women Made History Bringing New Perspectives Into Focus at New York’s Alice Austen House -
Where Women Made History Avriel Shull: The Fearless Designer Who Quietly Built an Architectural Legacy -
African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund The Spirit of Madam C.J. Walker Lives on at Villa Lewaro -
Where Women Made History “The Women on The Mother Road” Takes a New Approach to Sharing the Stories of Route 66 -
African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund Where it All Started: Remembering Nina Simone's North Carolina -
African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund The Reawakening of Black Academia in Chester County, South Carolina
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