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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Where Women Made History Why Julia Morgan's YWCA Oahu Is More Than Just a Building -
Frank Lloyd Wright The Unorthodox Fight to Save a Frank Lloyd Wright Home -
Where Women Made History How A'Lelia Walker And The Dark Tower Shaped The Harlem Renaissance -
African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund Maryland Site Asks Visitors To Reflect On Harriet Tubman's Journey -
Where Women Made History Minerva Parker Nichols: One Of Architecture's Unsung Pioneers -
African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund A Look at Langley Research Center, Where the Women of "Hidden Figures" Worked -
Historic Sites A Different Kind of History Lesson at Belle Grove Plantation -
Where Women Made History Meet Victoria Woodhull, America's First Female Presidential Candidate -
African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund How the "Visionary" Founder of NOW Speaks To Equality Today -
Where Women Made History The Dynamic Woman Who Shaped Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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