Women's History Month 2025
March is Women's History Month The Library of Congress, National Archives and Records Administration, National Endowment for the Humanities, National Gallery of Art, National Park Service, Smithsonian Institution and United States Holocaust Memorial Museum join in commemorating and encouraging the study, observance and celebration of the vital role of women in American history.
Elizabeth Catlett: A Black Revolutionary Artist
One of the defining artists of the 20th century, Elizabeth Catlett addressed the injustices she witnessed and experienced in America and Mexico through her bold prints and dynamic sculptures. See more than 150 of her creations in this exhibition, including rarely seen paintings and drawings.
Image credit: Elizabeth Catlett, Links Together, 1996, lithograph on wove Arches paper, National Gallery of Art, Purchased as the Gift of Art Information Volunteers in Honor of Dianne Stephens, 2021.63.1. © 2024 Mora-Catlett Family / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY
Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum Discoverability Lab
The Discoverability Lab is a cooperative effort among historians, technologists, and the public to leverage emerging technologies to bring women’s history from the margins into the mainstream. Using data science, crowdsourcing, and museum collections, the Discoverability Lab helps make women’s history visible to tell a more complete American story.
Image credit: Smithsonian American Women's History Museum staff in Smithsonian Archives, 2025, courtesy Smithsonian American Women's History Museum
Pattern and Paradox: The Quilts of Amish Women
Explore the creative practice of Amish quilters in the United States. Pattern and Paradox: The Quilts of Amish Women looks beyond quilting as a utilitarian practice. In the late nineteenth century, Amish women adopted an artform already established within the larger American culture and made it distinctly their own, developing community and familial preferences, with women sharing work, skills, and patterns.
Image credit: Unidentified Maker, Crazy Star; ca. 1920, Arthur, Illinois, cotton and wool; 74 x 63 ½ in. (detail), Collection of Faith and Stephen Brown, Promised gift to the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
National Park Service Celebrates Women's History Month
Explore women's history in national parks and in places in communities across the country to discover women of all cultures providing healing and hope. Learn how women continue to lead in these roles in stewardship and conservation of America's natural and cultural treasures today.
Image credit: Image designed by the National Park Service
The Women of Five Wars
The limited but important roles women played in Korea and Vietnam paved the path to more expanded -- and in some cases more dangerous -- specialties in recent wars.
Image credit: Fort Wayne News Sentinel image of Mary Weiss Hester of the 801st Medical Air Evacuation Squadron caring for a wounded patient onboard a C-47 Skytrain. January 1953. (Library of Congress)
“Latinas Talk Latinas” an online educational video series launches March 6
“Latinas Talk Latinas,” will launch its third season March 6, introducing viewers to the lives of four Latinas as told by curators, historians, and educators across the Smithsonian. This spring season will explore stories of contemporary Latinas working in Spanish-language media and journalism.
Image Credit: Courtesy of the National Museum of American History
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