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      3/19/2016: Help Us Write Minority Women into History

      • Date: March 15, 2016
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: [edan-image:id=siris_sic_8825,size=300,left]It is once again time to come together for a day of Wikipedia! Join Smithsonian and U.S. National Archives staff, as well as local Wikipedian volunteers, for a Women's History Month/Museum Day Live! edit-a-thon on Saturday March 19th, 10am-3pm, at the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian. Sign up for a wikipedia

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    3. Francine Berkowitz, former Director of the Office of International Relations

      Wonderful Women Wednesday: Francine Berkowitz

      • Date: November 2, 2016
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: As the Smithsonian Women's Council Career Development Chair, Francine Berkowitz, former Director of the Office of International Relations, established career planning workshops to help women and minorities advance at the Smithsonian. #Groundbreaker

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    5. Dr. Olivia Cadaval, Curator and Chair of Cultural Research and Education at the Smithsonian's Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage

      Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dr. Olivia Cadaval

      • Date: November 9, 2016
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: Dr. Olivia Cadaval, Curator and Chair of Cultural Research and Education at the Smithsonian's Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, was part of the movement to coin the term 'Latino:' "We are Spanish speaking. We are minorities. We have to do something to pool our forces."

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      We’re Digitizing the Smithsonian Women’s Council Records!

      • Date: June 30, 2022
      • Creator: Dr. Elizabeth Harmon
      • Description: Celebrate with us as we ramp up to digitize more than 36,000 records documenting the history of women and work at the Smithsonian.

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      Designed for Change: The Experimental Gallery, 1991-1994

      • Date: July 5, 2018
      • Creator: Mitch Toda
      • Description: For a period of time in the early 1990s, the Smithsonian Institution's Arts and Industries Building played host to an experimental exhibition gallery space.

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      Wonderful Women Wednesday: LaVerne M. Love

      • Date: February 6, 2019
      • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
      • Description: LaVerne M. Love, Women's Program Manager with the Office of Equal Opportunity, 1973–1980, was the executive officer of the Smithsonian Women's Council and wrote the organization's first bylaws. In 1976–77, she chaired the Civil Service Commission task force on minority women. At the time, she was the highest ranking African American woman at the Smithsonian. #Groundbreaker

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      Color History with the Smithsonian Recap!

      • Date: April 5, 2016
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: On a cloudy Saturday afternoon, over 30 volunteers showed up at the National Museum of the American Indian to write minority women into digital history during a Wikipedia edit-a-thon in honor of Women's History Month. On the to-do list were artists, educators, activists, Smithsonian employees, the first Chinese-American female dentist, and the African-American woman who

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    15. A woman wearing a long dress sits for a photograph. She is smiling and her hands are crossed at her lap.

      Wonderful Women Wednesday: Ruth E. Blanchard

      • Date: June 8, 2022
      • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
      • Description: Each week, the Archives features a woman who has been a groundbreaker at the Smithsonian, past or present, in a series titled Wonderful Women Wednesday.

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      Wonderful Women Wednesday: Era L. Marshall

      • Date: April 28, 2021
      • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
      • Description: Each week, the Archives features a woman who has been a groundbreaker at the Smithsonian, past or present, in a series titled Wonderful Women Wednesday.

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      Hot Topix in Archival Research, Spring 2018

      • Date: May 22, 2018
      • Creator: Deborah Shapiro
      • Description: This is the latest post in our "Hot Topix" series. In each quarterly edition we show you what the reference team has been up to, and bring you some of the more notable inuqires we have received.Vicarious research is one of the great joys of the reference desk at the Smithsonian Institution Archives. From our front-row (well, only-row) seat outside the reading room, we catch

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    21. International Conference on the Biology of Whales in Virginia in 1971. Credit via NOAA.

      Deconstructing a “Man’s World” One Woman at a Time

      • Date: August 2, 2018
      • Description: Ellen Roney Hughes’ supposition in 1999 was “Well, I think it’s still a man’s world at the Smithsonian.” This may hold some validity due to recent discoveries at the Smithsonian.

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    23. A portrait of scientist Eva J. Pell smiling.

      American Women of Science: Recovering History, Defining the Future

      • Date: October 6, 2020
      • Creator: Dr. Elizabeth Harmon
      • Description: Attend this year’s Smithsonian American Women’s History Initiative Virtual Symposium!

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