Results for "Smithsonian Institution Women's Council"
Women in Humanities
- Date: March 3, 2015
- Creator: Mitch Toda
- Description: To kick off Women's History month, a look at some of the women in humanities represented in the Smithsonian Institution Archives collections.
Women Carrying out the Work of Change in the 1970s
- Date: January 5, 2021
- Creator: Dr. Elizabeth Harmon
- Description: Wonder Woman 1984 features fictional Smithsonian women in science trying to change the world. Let’s examine how real-life women pushed for change at the Smithsonian in the 1970s and created new opportunities for women at work.
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Celebrate Women’s History Month with the Smithsonian Transcription Center!
- Date: March 9, 2021
- Creator: Jessica Scott
- Description: Help us transcribe the records of groundbreaking Smithsonian entomologist Doris Holmes Blake.
Smithsonian Women in Science
- Date: September 17, 2019
- Creator: Dr. Elizabeth Harmon
- Description: Learn how we’re creating a better record of women in science at the Smithsonian.
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Looking for Women Managers of the Smithsonian’s Museums
- Date: March 16, 2022
- Creator: Pamela M. Henson
- Description: When did women begin to manage Smithsonian museums? Meet Grace Dunham Guest who was a key staff member in opening the Freer Gallery of Art in 1923.
Wonderful Women Wednesday: Edie Mayo
- Date: September 7, 2016
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: Curator emeritus of Political History, Edie Mayo, Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History, was a longtime advocate for women’s representation in history - “visibility in the past equals empowerment in the future.” #Groundbreaker
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Pickering’s Women?
- Date: May 8, 2009
- Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
- Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.
Wonderful Women Wednesday: Margaret Simmons Vining
- Date: August 3, 2022
- Creator: Emily Niekrasz
- Description: Margaret Simmons Vining was a museum specialist and later curator of armed forces history at the National Museum of American History from 1983 until her death in 2018.In addition to curating major exhibitions and building the division’s collections, she founded and supervised the Smithsonian Archive of Women’s Military History. Together with her longtime collaborator and life
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The Archives’ Hidden Women
- Date: March 15, 2018
- Creator: Deborah Shapiro
- Description: [edan-image:id=siris_sic_9246,size=500,center]THE BIGGER PICTURE's “Wonderful Women Wednesday” series profiles the female curators, directors, and research scientists who have risen to prominence in their careers at the Smithsonian.These stories of broken glass ceilings are fascinating, but they barely scratch the surface of the Smithsonian’s female workforce through the
Annual Call for Help Identifying Women Scientists
- Date: March 8, 2012
- Creator: Tammy L. Peters
- Description: This is our fourth annual call for help identifying scientists from the Archives’ collections for Women's History Month.
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Help Us ID These Mystery Women and Scientists
- Date: March 9, 2011
- Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
- Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.
Wikipedia & Women in Science: Smithsonian Groundbreakers Edit-a-thon
- Date: August 24, 2020
- Description: Help us increase the representation of women in science on Wikipedia!