Women's Heritage 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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Celebrate American Women Two 19th-Century Artists’ Homes Shed Light on the Women Who Shaped Them -
African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund 4 African American Women's Clubs That Helped Write History -
Celebrate American Women Belated Recognition for Anti-Lynching Journalist Ida B. Wells -
Celebrate American Women Hatchet-Wielding Activist Carry A. Nation Knew to Pick Her Battles -
Celebrate American Women How Wild West Sharpshooter Annie Oakley Made It in a Man’s World -
Celebrate American Women QUIZ: Which Historic Woman Are You? -
African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund Hair Care Helped a Community: Black Entrepreneur Annie Malone and Poro College -
Preservation Magazine A Storied Los Angeles Club for African American Women Looks to the Future -
National Treasures Women's Work: Joan Hinton and the Manhattan Project -
African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund A Descendant’s Fight to Preserve Her Ancestors’ History -
Celebrate American Women Archaeology Reveals the Hidden History of Amache Ochinee Prowers -
Celebrate American Women The Fight for Preservation Continues at Connecticut’s Mary and Eliza Freeman Houses
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