May 25, 2023 · Understanding women’s history is integral to understanding the American experience. Although often underrepresented in recorded histories, women helped build the United States of America of today and women will help shape the United States of …

Celebrate Women’s History Month in the museum’s cafe (Lower Level) during the month of March! A special menu inspired by the recipes of renowned chef Julia Child includes classics like coq au vin, potato gratin, and ratatouille; a clafoutis berry-baked cake for dessert; and sides like grilled asparagus, fingerling potatoes, and beet and citrus salad.

Feb 10, 2025 · The Eat at America’s Table Cafe is open for complete food and beverage service, featuring a mouthwatering Women’s History menu based on Julia Child’s cookbooks, including Coq Au Vin, Ratatouille, special sides and Clafoutis for dessert. The LeRoy Neiman Jazz Cafe serves light lunch and delicious pastries as well as hot and cold beverages ...

Mar 6, 2025 · In this final episode, we look at the impact of Beyoncé’s Cowboy Carter album and talk with two Black women artists of today to learn how they place themselves in relation to the women who came before them: jazz harpist Brandee Younger and singer/songwriter Allison Russell. Both Younger and Russell intertwine genres and legacies and are ...

Other women donned uniforms because of their association with the military—World War I was the first time in American history in which women were officially attached to arms of the American military and government agencies. Yeomen (F) served with the Navy and the Marine Corps, while the Army Nurse Corps was attached to the Army.

The “Women in Philanthropy” program will look at how, from the early days of the Republic, women have come together to mobilize resources, support communities and advance causes. Throughlines will be made between early American women and today’s women in how the philanthropic landscape has been redefined to catalyze change.

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RH.11-12.10 (Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity): By the end of grade 12, read and comprehend history/social studies texts in the grades 11-CCR text complexity band independently and proficiently.

Bracero History Archive. The Bracero Program allowed millions of Mexican men to come to the United States between 1942 and 1964 as short-term laborers on farms in the United States but women's stories are also relevant to this history.

Jan 9, 2025 · The National Museum of American History hosted photographer Richard Avedon’s very first one-man show in November 1962. Avedon then gifted the entire work represented in that exhibition to the museum, followed shortly by two additional donations.

As America joined the fight and battlefronts multiplied around the globe, demands on war production skyrocketed. Civilian industries retooled, making tanks instead of cars, parachutes instead of stockings, even machine guns instead of Kleenex®. And as men went off to war, six million women took their places on factory floors and assembly lines.